; amount (A) Duration A grant under this subsection shall be for a 4-year period. (B) Amount A State that is awarded a grant under this subsection shall be for an amount not to exceed $12,000,000. (4) Funding The Secretary, acting through the Deputy Administrator and Director, shall provide for not more than $100,000,000 to carry out the program described in paragraph (1) from amounts otherwise appropriated pursuant to section 1115A(f) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1315a(f) ). 3. Pilot program on improved access to certain tests and assistive telehealth consultations for veterans (a) Pilot program (1) Establishment Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans shall establish a pilot program on improved access to certain telehealth services for veterans (in this section referred to as the pilot program ). Under the pilot program, the Secretary shall furnish covered services to participants, at no cost to the participants, in accordance with this section. (2) Provision of covered services (A) Health care providers The Secretary shall select not fewer than five facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs through which to carry out the program, of which not fewer than three shall serve veterans in rural or highly rural areas (as determined through the use of the Rural-Urban Commuting Areas coding system of the Department of Agriculture). (B) Covered services Under the pilot program, and notwithstanding that the provider ordering or providing the service is not at the same location as the participant receiving the service, health care providers at each facility selected under subparagraph (A) shall furnish to program participants the following services: (i) Tests described in subparagraph (C) that are ordered by the health care provider via a telecommunications system. (ii) Assistive telehealth consultations that are provided by the health care provider via a telecommunications system. (C) Tests described A test described in this subparagraph is a test