Title: PT for PTs Act of 2021
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Parity in Telehealth for Physical Therapists Act of 2021 or the PT for PTs Act of 2021
This bill permanently allows physical therapists to provide telehealth services under Medicare.
Currently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is authorized to waive requirements for Medicare telehealth services during the public health emergency relating to COVID-19, and it has done so to allow all providers that are otherwise eligible to furnish in-person services under Medicare to also furnish telehealth services.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5452 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5452

  To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include physical 
 therapists as practitioners able to furnish telehealth services under 
                         the Medicare program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 30, 2021

Mrs. Hinson (for herself and Mrs. Axne) introduced the following bill; 
  which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in 
    addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to include physical 
 therapists as practitioners able to furnish telehealth services under 
                         the Medicare program.

    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 ``Parity in Telehealth for Physical 
Therapists Act of 2021'' or the ``PT for PTs Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. INCLUDING PHYSICAL THERAPISTS AS PRACTITIONERS ABLE TO FURNISH 
              TELEHEALTH SERVICES UNDER THE MEDICARE PROGRAM.

    Section 1834(m) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``(described in section 
        1842(b)(18)(C))'';
            (2) in paragraph (3)(A), by adding at the end the following 
        new sentence: ``For purposes of the preceding sentence, the 
        term `practitioner' means a practitioner described in section 
        1842(b)(18)(C).''; and
            (3) in paragraph (4)(E), by amending such subparagraph to 
        read as follows:
                    ``(E) Practitioner.--The term `practitioner' 
                means--
                            ``(i) a practitioner described in section 
                        1842(b)(18)(C);
                            ``(ii) a physical therapist; and
                            ``(iii) a physical therapist assistant 
                        acting under the supervision of a physical 
                        therapist (whether or not such supervision is 
                        provided in-person).''.
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