; (2) the Secretary of Health and Human Services should promptly take all necessary measures to ensure that providers and beneficiaries can continue to furnish and utilize, respectively, telehealth services in the Medicare program, including modifying, as appropriate, the definition of interactive telecommunications system in regulations and program instruction under the Medicare program to ensure that providers can utilize all appropriate means and types of technology, including audio-visual, audio-only, and other types of technologies, to furnish telehealth services; and (3) barriers to the use of telehealth should be removed. I Removing barriers to telehealth coverage 101. Removing geographic requirements for telehealth services Section 1834(m)(4)(C) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)(4)(C) ) is amended— (1) in clause (i), in the matter preceding subclause (I), by striking clause (iii) and inserting clauses (iii) and (iv) ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new clause: (iv) Removal of geographic requirements The geographic requirements described in clause (i) shall not apply with respect to telehealth services furnished on or after January 1, 2025. . 102. Expanding originating sites (a) Expanding the home as an originating site Section 1834(m)(4)(C)(ii)(X) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)(4)(C)(ii)(X) ) is amended to read as follows: (X) (aa) Prior to January 1, 2025, the home of an individual but only for purposes of section 1881(b)(3)(B) or telehealth services described in paragraph (7). (bb) On or after January 1, 2025, the home of an individual. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the home of an individual includes temporary lodging and, in the case where, for privacy or other personal reasons, an individual chooses to travel a short distance from the home for the furnishing of a telehealth service, includes such location, as described in the final rule entitled Medicare Program