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CONNECT for Health Act of 2025
Introduced Apr 2, 2025 by Sen. Brian Schatz
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Latest action · Apr 2, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
What it does
This bill expands coverage of telehealth services under Medicare.
Among other provisions, the bill
permanently removes geographic restrictions on originating sites (i.e., the location of the beneficiary) and allows the home of the beneficiary to serve as the originating site for all services;
permanently allows federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics to serve as the distant site (i.e., the location of the health care practitioner); and
Read the full summary on Congress.govSummary by the Congressional Research Service.
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