Telemental Health Care Access Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-7]
Introduced
Summary
Expands Medicare telehealth to cover behavioral health services. It broadens telehealth coverage to include behavioral health care delivered remotely while preserving the existing geographic coverage framework.
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- Medicare beneficiaries: Seniors and people on Medicare can receive both mental and behavioral health services by telehealth, increasing remote access to therapy and counseling.
- Mental and behavioral health providers: The bill authorizes coverage for behavioral health services furnished via telehealth in addition to treatment for mental health disorders and removes a prior constraint by striking subparagraph (B).
- Policy and timing: The amendments take effect as if included in the enactment of section 123 of division CC of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260), and retain the current geographic rules for telehealth.
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More Medicare telehealth mental and behavioral care
If enacted, you could get more mental and behavioral health care covered by Medicare when you use telehealth. The bill would expand coverage beyond treatment of mental health disorders to include behavioral health services delivered remotely. It would remove a prior limit in subparagraph (B) and keep the current geographic rules for telehealth in place. The change would take effect as if it had been included in section 123 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260).
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-7]
CA • D
Cosponsors
Balderson
OH • R
Sponsored 6/10/2025
Rep. McClain Delaney, April [D-MD-6]
MD • D
Sponsored 7/10/2025
Rep. Fields, Cleo [D-LA-6]
LA • D
Sponsored 7/10/2025
Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
NE • R
Sponsored 7/14/2025
Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6]
MI • D
Sponsored 7/14/2025
Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]
MI • D
Sponsored 7/14/2025
Cohen
TN • D
Sponsored 7/14/2025
Rep. Carbajal, Salud O. [D-CA-24]
CA • D
Sponsored 7/14/2025
Stansbury
NM • D
Sponsored 7/14/2025
Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13]
MI • D
Sponsored 7/16/2025
McBride
DE • D
Sponsored 7/16/2025
Gray
CA • D
Sponsored 7/29/2025
Rep. Landsman, Greg [D-OH-1]
OH • D
Sponsored 10/3/2025
Liccardo
CA • D
Sponsored 10/8/2025
Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]
NY • D
Sponsored 10/8/2025
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 10/8/2025
Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
NY • D
Sponsored 10/8/2025
Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7]
WA • D
Sponsored 10/17/2025
Jackson (IL)
IL • D
Sponsored 10/31/2025
Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8]
MD • D
Sponsored 11/19/2025
Rep. Mackenzie, Ryan [R-PA-7]
PA • R
Sponsored 1/9/2026
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