Telehealth Coverage Act of 2025

The Telehealth Coverage Act of 2025 would make permanent several temporary Medicare telehealth policies that were adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic and are currently set to expire. If enacted, the bill would allow Medicare patients to receive telehealth services from home without geographic restrictions, expand which types of healthcare providers can offer telehealth services (including physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, and audiologists), and allow rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers to serve as telehealth providers. The bill would also extend the Acute Hospital Care at Home Program, which allows hospitals to treat certain patients from their homes rather than in hospital beds.

Additionally, the bill would require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide guidance to healthcare providers on supporting patients with limited English proficiency through telehealth and to conduct outreach about screening for medication-related movement disorders in mental health patients. Currently, the bill is in the early stages of the legislative process, having been referred to committee in March 2025, and has not yet been voted on by the full House.