1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Helping Expand Access to Rural Telemedicine Act of 2017 or as the HEART Act of 2017 . 2. Expansions of coverage of telehealth services (a) Counties in MSAs with populations less than 70,000 individuals Section 1834(m)(4)(C) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)(4)(C)(i) ) is amended in clause (i)(II) by inserting both a county that has a population of greater than 70,000 individuals, according to the most recent decennial census, and a county that is before included in a Metropolitan Statistical Area . (b) Critical access and sole community hospitals Section 1834(m)(4)(C) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)(4)(C) ), as amended by subsection (a), is further amended— (1) in clause (i), by inserting , in the case that such site is not a site described in subclause (II) or (IX) of such clause, after via a telecommunications system and ; and (2) in clause (ii), by adding at the end the following new subclause: (IX) A sole community hospital (as defined in section 1886(d)(5)(D)(iii)). . (c) Store-and-Forward technologies Section 1834(m)(1) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)(1) ) is amended by inserting any telehealth services that are furnished from a distant site, or to an originating site, that is a critical access hospital (as described in paragraph subclause (II) of paragraph (4)(C)(ii)), a rural health clinic (as described in subclause (III) of such paragraph), or a sole community hospital (as described in subclause (IX) of such paragraph), or of after in the case of . (d) Rural health clinics as distant sites Section 1834(m)(4)(A) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)(4)(A) ) is amended— (1) by striking site.— The term and inserting: site (i) In general The term