H.R. 1614 has not moved since its introduction on Feb 26, 2025, with cosponsors split almost evenly between the parties
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand practitioners eligible to furnish telehealth services under the Medicare program.
IntroducedFeb 26, 2025
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Passed one chamber—
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 18 words.
This bill permanently allows audiologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists to furnish telehealth services under Medicare.
Context
- Committees
- House Energy and Commerce Committee
House Ways and Means Committee - Policy area
- Health: 122 of 9,357 bills became law, 113th–118th (1.3%)
- Sponsor
- 4 of 156 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 39 words
- Subjects
- Computers and information technologyHealth technology, devices, suppliesHearing, speech, and vision careLong-term, rehabilitative, and terminal careMedicare
- Latest action
- Feb 26, 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.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 0
The bill status record lists no related bills.
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]