H.R. 5496 · 119th Congress
HEALTH Act of 2025
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Helping Ensure Access to Local TeleHealth Act of 2025 or the HEALTH Act of 2025
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Sep 18, 2025
Helping Ensure Access to Local TeleHealth Act of 2025 or the HEALTH Act of 2025
This bill modifies requirements relating to Medicare coverage of telehealth services, including services that are furnished by federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and rural health clinics (RHCs).
Specifically, the bill expands coverage to include audio-only telehealth services. It also permanently allows FQHCs and RHCs to serve as the distant site (i.e., the location of the health care practitioner) for telehealth services and excludes such services from certain geographic restrictions. Payment must be made in the same manner as for non-telehealth services, rather than in accordance with a separate methodology determined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: HEALTH Act of 2025
Also known as: Helping Ensure Access to Local TeleHealth Act of 2025
Latest action (Sep 18, 2025): Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Policy area: Health · Origin: House · Introduced: Sep 18, 2025
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.