1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Helping Ensure Access to Local TeleHealth Act of 2023 or the HEALTH Act of 2023 . 2. Providing for permanent cost-related payments for telehealth services furnished by Federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics under the Medicare program and permanently removing originating site facility and location requirements for distant site telehealth services furnished by such centers and such clinics (a) Coverage of audio-Only telehealth services (1) In general Section 1834(m)(4) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395m(m)(4) ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (G) Telecommunications system Except as provided in paragraph (1), the term telecommunications system means a two-way, real-time interactive communications system, whether by audiovisual or audio-only communications. . (2) Required implementation steps Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall— (A) revise section 410.78(a)(3) of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation) to define the term interactive telecommunications system in accordance with the amendment made by paragraph (1)