3.0.0 4211 2023-01-11T13:45:39Z 2023-01-11T13:45:39Z Senate S 2020-07-02 116 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-07-02T21:57:38Z Facilitating Reforms that Offer Necessary Telehealth In Every Rural (FRONTIER) Community Act 116 7571 HR 2020-09-03 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit. Identical bill CRS 2020-07-02 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2020-07-02 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001198 Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK] Dan Sullivan R AK N R000608 Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV] Jacklyn Rosen D NV 2020-07-02 True Health Health care coverage and access Health facilities and institutions Health technology, devices, supplies Internet and video services Internet, web applications, social media Medicare Mental health Minority health Rural conditions and development Telephone and wireless communication Health 00 2020-07-02 Introduced in Senate 2020-10-19T15:53:13Z Facilitating Reforms that Offer Necessary Telehealth In Every Rural (FRONTIER) Community Act

This bill modifies requirements relating to coverage of certain telehealth services under Medicare. Specifically, the bill removes restrictions that require the originating site (i.e., the location of the beneficiary) to be in certain rural areas and to be a specific type of facility, if the services (1) are mental health services furnished in a frontier state, or (2) are furnished in an Indian Health Service facility.

Additionally, the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Agriculture must award grants for broadband infrastructure in frontier states to support the provision of mental health services via telehealth under Medicare.

]]> Facilitating Reforms that Offer Necessary Telehealth In Every Rural (FRONTIER) Community Act Display Title Facilitating Reforms that Offer Necessary Telehealth In Every Rural (FRONTIER) Community Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Facilitating Reforms that Offer Necessary Telehealth In Every Rural (FRONTIER) Community Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand access in frontier States to mental health services furnished through telehealth, and for other purposes Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s4211is/xml/BILLS-116s4211is.xml 2020-07-02 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.