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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Feb 18, 2025
Permanent Telehealth from Home Act
This bill permanently allows any site to serve as an originating site (i.e., the location of the beneficiary) for purposes of Medicare telehealth services, including a beneficiary's home.
People & committees
Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16] · R–FL
Legislative record
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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.
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.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-18 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
The proposed Permanent Telehealth from Home Act would remove a March 31, 2025 cutoff from two Medicare telehealth provisions concerning where patients can receive care remotely. Those provisions would instead apply after a referenced emergency period, without a new end date. The bill also would remove a condition requiring that emergency period to end before December 31, 2024. The existing Medicare rules are not reproduced, so the supplied text does not establish the full scope of services or patient locations covered.
This Act may be cited as the Permanent Telehealth from Home Act.
Removing geographic requirements and expanding originating sites for telehealth services under the Medicare program
(A) by striking In the case that the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) ends before December 31, 2024, with and inserting With; and (B) by striking during the period beginning on the first day after the end of such emergency period and ending March 31, 2025 and inserting after the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B)
Section 2 would make identical timing changes in paragraphs (2)(B)(iii) and (4)(C)(iii) of section 1834(m) of the Social Security Act. In both places, it would remove the condition that the referenced emergency period end before December 31, 2024, and replace the period ending March 31, 2025 with language applying after that emergency period. The replacement language specifies no new expiration date.
Section 1834(m) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2)(B)(iii)— (A) by striking In the case that the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) ends before December 31, 2024, with and inserting With; and (B) by striking during the period beginning on the first day after the end of such emergency period and ending March 31, 2025 and inserting after the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B); and (2) in paragraph (4)(C)(iii)— (A) by striking In the case that the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) ends before December 31, 2024, with and inserting With; and (B) by striking during the period beginning on the first day after the end of such emergency period and ending March 31, 2025 and inserting after the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B).
The supplied actions snapshot, updated September 11, 2026, records introduction in the House and referral to the Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees on February 18, 2025. It does not establish subsequent passage or enactment.
Source snapshot updated 2026-09-11T08:05:35Z.
2025-02-18: Introduced in House
2025-02-18: 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.
A closer look
Reviewed version: Introduced in House · 2025-02-18. These findings describe provisions and who may benefit; they are not judgments of waste, corruption, or motive.
This review covers the supplied bill text. “None identified” does not rule out provisions in later versions or accompanying reports and disclosures.
Provisions outside the bill’s main subject, or policy changes attached to appropriations.
None identified in the reviewed text
No unrelated provision or policy change attached to appropriations was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion is limited to that version.
Spending directed to particular recipients or places outside ordinary competitive or formula-based allocation.
None identified in the reviewed text
No congressionally directed spending for particular recipients or places was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion does not extend to other versions or accompanying materials.
Narrow exceptions, exemptions, or preferential treatment that warrant a closer look.
None identified in the reviewed text
No materially narrow carve-out, special exemption, or preferential treatment was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion is limited to that version.
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