Home Cardiac Rehabilitation Access Bill

Official: Sustainable Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Services in the Home Act

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HealthHealth programs administration and fundingHealth care coverage and accessHealth technology, devices, suppliesCardiovascular and respiratory healthMedicareLong-term, rehabilitative, and terminal careHome and outpatient care

Why This Matters

This bill makes it easier for people to access cardiac rehabilitation services from home using telehealth, ensuring they receive necessary care without traveling.

If you need cardiac rehabilitation, you could receive care from home instead of traveling to a facility.

Affects: Patients needing cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services, especially those living far from healthcare facilities.

Summary

Sustainable Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Services in the Home Act This bill permanently allows services relating to cardiac rehabilitation programs, intensive cardiac rehabilitation programs, and pulmonary rehabilitation programs to be furnished via telehealth at a beneficiary's home under Medicare.

What changes is this bill making?

1. This bill allows patients to receive cardiac rehabilitation services at home through telehealth. 2. It expands the types of healthcare providers who can offer these services remotely. 3. The bill removes geographic restrictions for telehealth services related to cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation. 4. It establishes standards for homes to be recognized as provider-based locations for rehabilitation services. 5. The changes will take effect starting January 1, 2026.

Who is affected?

Patients needing cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services, especially those living far from healthcare facilities.

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