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118TH CONGRESS REPT. 118-876
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
TRANSPARENT TELEHEALTH BILLS ACT OF 2024
DECEMBER 16, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. Foxx, from the Committee on Education and the Workforce,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 9457]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Education and the Workforce, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 9457) to amend the Employee Retirement In-
come Security Act of 1974 to prohibit increased payments under a
group health plan or group health insurance coverage for telehealth
services furnished by a provider located at a facility, having consid-
ered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and
recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Transparent Telehealth Bills Act of 2024.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITING INCREASED PAYMENTS UNDER A GROUP HEALTH PLAN OR GROUP
HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR TELEHEALTH SERVICES FURNISHED BY A
PROVIDER LOCATED AT A FACILITY.
(a) IN GENERAL.-Subpart B of part 7 of subtitle B of title I of the Employee Re-
tirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1185 et seq.) is amended by adding
at the end the following new section:
SEC. 726. PROHIBITION ON INCREASED PAYMENTS FOR TELEHEALTH SERVICES FURNISHED
BY A PROVIDER LOCATED AT A FACILITY.
(a) IN GENERAL.-In the case of a telehealth service furnished to a participant
or beneficiary of a group health plan or group health insurance coverage by a health
care provider located at a health care facility, the total amount recognized by such
plan or coverage as payment for such service (including any facility fee or other
amount that may be billed separately by such facility in relation to such provider's
furnishing of such service) may not exceed the total amount that would have been
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