Rural Telehealth Expansion Act
This bill expands coverage of telehealth services under Medicare to include store-and-forward technologies (in which information is sent to providers and reviewed at a later time, rather than through a real-time interaction). Currently, coverage is limited to federal demonstration programs in Alaska and Hawaii.
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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rural Telehealth Expansion Act''.

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,''.
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Rural Telehealth Expansion Act
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.
Rural Telehealth Expansion Act
Rep. Rosendale Sr., Matthew M.