HR 3306 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2013

Fact sheet

Latest action · Oct 25, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedOct 22, 2013
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2013 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in order to provide a positive incentive for certain hospitals to lower their excess readmission ratios for inpatient services, to make an additional payment to a hospital in such proportion that provides for a sharing of the savings from better-than-expected performance between the hospital and the Medicare program.

Authorizes the Secretary, in the case of a state that has amended its Medicaid plan to provide coordinated care through a health home for individuals with chronic conditions, to contract with the state medical assistance agency to serve eligible individuals with chronic conditions who select a designated provider, a team of health care professionals operating with such a provider, or a health team as the individual's health home.

Authorizes the Secretary to contract with a national or multi-state regional center of excellence with a network of affiliated local providers to provide through one or more medical homes for targeted, accessible, continuous, and coordinated care to individuals under Medicare and Medicaid with a long-term illness or medical condition that requires regular medical treatment, advising, and monitoring.

Authorizes an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) to include coverage of telehealth and remote patient monitoring services as supplemental health care benefits to the same extent as a Medicare Advantage plan is permitted to provide such coverage of such services as supplemental health care.

Recognizes telehealth services and remote patient monitoring in the national pilot program on payment bundling.

Includes among originating sites (at which an eligible telehealth individual is located at the time a service is furnished via a telecommunications system), but without receiving payment of a facility fee, any critical access hospitals, sole community hospitals, home telehealth sites, as well as specified others.

Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to give states the option to provide coordinated care for enrollees with high-risk pregnancies and births.

Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to specify additional health care providers to which universal telecommunications service support must be provided.

Requires Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules for enhancing health care provider access to advanced telecommunications and information services to disregard provider location.

Cosponsors 20

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 22, 2013 to Apr 29, 2014, with 3 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-CADevin NunesOriginalOct 22, 2013
D-CAMike ThompsonOriginalOct 22, 2013
D-VTPeter WelchOriginalOct 22, 2013
R-WACathy McMorris RodgersNov 14, 2013
D-CAScott H. PetersNov 14, 2013
R-MSSteven M. PalazzoNov 15, 2013
R-ILJohn ShimkusNov 21, 2013
D-MSBennie G. ThompsonDec 5, 2013
D-AZRon BarberDec 12, 2013
R-AZDavid SchweikertJan 7, 2014
R-NEJeff FortenberryJan 7, 2014
R-NYRichard L. HannaJan 7, 2014
R-SCJeff DuncanJan 28, 2014
R-PAGlenn ThompsonFeb 4, 2014
D-CAJared HuffmanFeb 28, 2014

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Oct 25, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  2. Oct 22, 2013Introduced in House
  3. Oct 22, 2013Referred 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.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 2662Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2014Related billJul 24, 2014

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Oct 22, 2013Introduced in House

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