Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) https://capito.senate.gov, Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Jon Tester (D-MT), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) and Lisa Murkowski R-Alaska) have joined together to introduce the Rural and Frontier Telehealth Expansion Act.
This bipartisan legislation would increase Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) funding for telehealth services, including audio-only telehealth by five percentage points in frontier states or states with limited access to broadband if those states cover telehealth services under Medicaid.
This legislation would apply to frontiers states such as Nevada, Alaska, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming or a state where less than 90% of the total population has access to fixed terrestrial broadband service or has fixed 25 Megabits per second download and 3 Mbps upload according to the annual FCC Broadband Deployment Report.