September 30, 2019 Cost Estimate As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on June 26, 2019 View Document115.11 KB Summary The bill would Accelerate the starting date for coverage of some new Medicare enrollees Expand the availability of telehealth services for mental health care Allow certain hospitals to reset their graduate medical education (GME) caps Provide higher payments to Medicare physicians in rural areas Estimated budgetary effects would primarily stem from Increased costs for new Medicare enrollees Expansion of telehealth services Increased numbers of GME positions at certain hospitals Higher Medicare payments to physicians in rural areas Areas of significant uncertainty include Estimating the increased demand for telehealth mental health care services and projecting the number of providers available to meet that need Projecting the number of GME positions created under the new caps Data and Supplemental Information Table 1 Table 2 Legislative Information Available From Congress.gov Related Publications H.R. 2328, Reauthorizing and Extending America’s Community Health ActSeptember 18, 2019
The bill would Accelerate the starting date for coverage of some new Medicare enrollees Expand the availability of telehealth services for mental health care Allow certain hospitals to reset their graduate medical education (GME) caps Provide higher payments to Medicare physicians in rural areas Estimated budgetary effects would primarily stem from Increased costs for new Medicare enrollees Expansion of telehealth services Increased numbers of GME positions at certain hospitals Higher Medicare payments to physicians in rural areas Areas of significant uncertainty include Estimating the increased demand for telehealth mental health care services and projecting the number of providers available to meet that need Projecting the number of GME positions created under the new caps