US Congress House Bill 5201 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: Introduced on November 20 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-12-24 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 580.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Permanently excludes mental health services that are furnished via telehealth from certain originating site requirements under Medicare. Under current law, these telehealth services are excluded from such requirements through the end of the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).

Telemental Health Expansion Act of 2020

Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]

Rep. Bill Johnson [R-OH]

Rep. David Trone [D-MD]

Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-12-24	House	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 580.
2020-12-24	House	Committee on Ways and Means discharged.
2020-12-24	House	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 116-697, Part I.
2020-07-15	House	Subcommittee on Health Discharged.
2020-07-15	House	Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
2020-07-15	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2020-06-30	House	Subcommittee Hearings Held.
2019-11-21	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2019-11-20	House	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.
2019-11-20	House	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.
2019-11-20	House	Introduced in House

HB4932 (Related) 2019-11-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
SB2741 (Related) 2019-10-30 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
SB4796 (Related) 2020-10-05 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
HB8527 (Related) 2020-10-02 - Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Oversight and Reform, House Administration, Rules, the Budget, and Armed Services, 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.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5201/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr5201/BILLS-116hr5201ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr5201/BILLS-116hr5201rh.pdf