Ensuring Parity in MA for Audio-Only Telehealth Act of 2021
Summary
Ensuring Parity in MA for Audio-Only Telehealth Act of 2021 This bill allows audio-only diagnoses that are made via telehealth to be used for purposes of determining risk adjustments to payments under Medicare Advantage. Additionally, the bill requires payments for Medicare telehealth services that are furnished during the public health emergency relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) to be made in the same amounts as those for in-person services.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Feb 2, 2021
Last action Feb 2, 2021
Floor votes
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No floor votes recorded yet.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
2
Key actions
0
Committee
1
Feb 2, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
upper
Feb 2, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 10 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Catherine Cortez Masto
DDemocratic
Co
Angus S. King, Jr.
IIndependent
Co
Dianne Feinstein
DDemocratic
Co
Jacky Rosen
DDemocratic
Co
Kyrsten Sinema
IIndependent
Co
Marsha Blackburn
RRepublican
Co
Robert P. Casey, Jr.
DDemocratic
Co
Shelley Moore Capito
RRepublican
Co
Susan M. Collins
RRepublican
Co
Tim Scott
RRepublican
Co
Tina Smith
DDemocratic
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