Congressman Jake LaTurner joins five fellow legislators in introducing the Protecting Rural Telehealth Access Act.

 The Act expands access to health care and save patients time and money by making permanent Medicare coverage of telehealth services allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes would include allowing patients to be treated at home, allowing rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers to provide telehealth services, and expanding coverage of audio-only services for certain conditions, among other changes.

 The Protecting Rural Telehealth Access Act expands and makes permanent Medicare coverage of telehealth services by removing geographic restrictions on originating sites, thus allowing patients to be treated from their homes, allowing Critical Access Hospitals to directly bill for telehealth services, allowing rural health clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers to serve as distance sites for providing telehealth services, and expanding coverage to include audio-only services for evaluation and management and behavioral health services.