Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Rural Telehealth Expansion Act”.
Rural Telehealth Expansion Act
A BILL
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include store-and-forward technologies as telecommunications systems through which telehealth services may be furnished for payment under the Medicare program.
Sec. 2 Medicare payment for store-and-forward technologies used to furnish telehealth services
Section 1834(m)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)(1)) is amended by striking “in the case of any Federal telemedicine demonstration program conducted in Alaska or Hawaii,”.