1. Short title; table of contents (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Advanced Safe Testing at Residence Telehealth Act of 2023 . (b) Table of contents The table of contents is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Coverage and payment for certain tests and assistive telehealth consultations; demonstration program under certain State Medicaid programs. Sec. 1859A. Tests and assistive telehealth consultations demonstration. Sec. 3. Pilot program on improved access to certain tests and assistive telehealth consultations for veterans. 2. Coverage and payment for certain tests and assistive telehealth consultations; demonstration program under certain State Medicaid programs (a) Tests and assistive telehealth consultations demonstration Part C of title XVIII of the Social Security Act is amended by inserting after section 1859 ( 42 U.S.C. 1395w–28 ) the following new subsection: 1859A. Tests and assistive telehealth consultations demonstration (a) Establishment (1) In general The Secretary shall establish a Value-Based Insurance Design Model demonstration program (in this section referred to as the VBID demonstration program ) to provide to eligible Medicare beneficiaries— (A) an assistive telehealth consultation that is furnished via a telecommunications system by a physician or practitioner to an eligible telehealth individual enrolled under part B notwithstanding that the individual physician or practitioner ordering the test did not furnish the test or that the individual physician or practitioner providing the assistive telehealth consultation is not at the same location as the beneficiary