Home-Based Telemental Health Care Act of 2025

Key Points

• Congress would create a federal grant program to expand at-home mental health and substance use care by video/phone for rural underserved areas.
• The program would also target people working in farming, fishing, and forestry—jobs where getting to care can be hard.
• Grant funds could help providers and patients with basics needed for remote care, like better broadband access, patient devices, and provider technology.
• Grantees would have to track quality and results, comparing remote care with in-person care, to show what works.
• The Health Department would report to Congress within 3 years after the program starts, and then every 2 years after that.