Title: SEE MORE Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Screenings for Eye Evaluation, Monitoring, Observation, Review, and Examination Act or the SEE MORE Act
This bill exempts telehealth services involving remote imaging for chronic eye disease from specified requirements, such as geographic restrictions, under Medicare.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3751 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3751

 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand the use of 
    telehealth services for remote imaging for chronic eye disease.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 13, 2018

 Mr. Casey (for himself, Mr. Grassley, and Mr. Cardin) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                                Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand the use of 
    telehealth services for remote imaging for chronic eye disease.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Screenings for Eye Evaluation, 
Monitoring, Observation, Review, and Examination Act'' or the ``SEE 
MORE Act''.

SEC. 2. EXPANDING THE USE OF TELEHEALTH SERVICES FOR REMOTE IMAGING FOR 
              CHRONIC EYE DISEASE.

    Section 1834(m) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (4)(C)(i), by striking ``and (7)'' and 
        inserting ``(7), and (8)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(8) Treatment of remote imaging for chronic eye 
        disease.--
                    ``(A) Non-application of originating site 
                requirements.--The requirements described in paragraph 
                (4)(C) shall not apply with respect to telehealth 
                services furnished on or after January 1, 2019, for 
                purposes of providing remote imaging for chronic eye 
                disease, as determined by the Secretary, including 
                diabetic eye disease and glaucoma. Such screenings 
                shall include the use of FDA-approved ocular imaging 
                techniques and technologies, including artificial 
                intelligence technologies, shown to support the 
                accurate diagnosis or monitoring of diabetic 
                retinopathy, glaucoma, or other chronic eye disease, as 
                determined by the Secretary.
                    ``(B) No originating site facility fee for new 
                sites.--No facility fee shall be paid under paragraph 
                (2)(B) to an originating site with respect to a 
                telehealth service described in subparagraph (A) if the 
                originating site does not otherwise meet the 
                requirements for an originating site under paragraph 
                (4)(C).
                    ``(C) Report.--Not later than 5 years after the 
                date of the enactment of this paragraph, the Secretary 
                shall submit to Congress a report on the impact of this 
                paragraph with respect to telehealth services on--
                            ``(i) the utilization of health care items 
                        and services related to diabetes and glaucoma;
                            ``(ii) health outcomes related to diabetes 
                        and glaucoma; and
                            ``(iii) the rates of specialty referrals 
                        and the rate for completion of a specialty 
                        visit within 90 days of referral for patients 
                        diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy or glaucoma 
                        through telehealth services.''.
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