,,ii  #aagth ,,congress  #ast ,session  
,s4 #baig  ,,in ,,the ,,senate ,,of     
,,the ,,united ,,states  ,june #bc1     
#bjba,ms4 ,rosen 7for herself1 ,mr4     
,sullivan1 ,mr4 ,tester1 ,mrs4 ,capito1 
,mr4 ,lujn1 and ,ms4 ,murkowski7        
introduced the following bill2 which was
 read twice and referred to the         
,committee on ,finance  ,a ,,bill  ,to  
amend title ,,xix of the ,social        
,security ,act to increase the ,federal 
medical assistance percentage for       
,states that provide ,medicaid coverage 
for telehealth services4  #a4 ,short    
title ,this ,act may be cited as the    
,rural and ,frontier ,telehealth        
,expansion ,act4  #b4 ,increased ,,fmap 
for ,states providing ,medicaid coverage
 for telehealth services ,section       
#aije7;b7 of the ,social ,security ,act 
7#db ,u4,s4,c4 #acif;d7b77 is amended1  
in the first sentence-- 7#a7 by striking
 and 7#e7 and inserting 7#e72 and  7#b7 
by inserting 1 and 7#f7 in the case of a
 frontier ,state 7as defined in section 

#ahhf7;d77#c77;,e77iii77,,ii77 or a     
,state where less than #ij percent of   
the total population has access to fixed
 terrestrial broadband service with at  
least #be megabits per second 7,mbps7   
download speed and #c ,mbps upload speed
 7according to the most recently        
available annual ,broadband ,deployment 
,report of the ,federal ,communications 
,commission7 that1 as determined by the 
,secretary1 provides medical assistance 
for telehealth services 7including      
audio-only telehealth services7 for a   
majority of the services for which      
medical assistance is available under   
the ,state plan 7or a waiver of such    
plan7 and for which telehealth is       
appropriate and provides such services  
at a level that is not less than the    
level at which the ,state provided such 
services on ,january #a1 #bjba1 the     
,federal medical assistance percentage1 
as determined under this subsection and 
subsection 7y71 shall be increased by #e
 percentage points with respect to      

medical assistance for telehealth       
services before the period4