1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Expanding Remote Monitoring Access Act . 2. Findings The Congress finds the following: (1) Remote monitoring is an option that can help patients manage their health conditions from their homes with oversight from their health care providers, which can improve patient health outcomes, reduce long-term health costs, and increase care options for patients. (2) The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) saw such results in a 2019 report. Veterans enrolled in remote patient monitoring had a 53 percent decrease in VA bed days of care and a 33 percent decrease in VA hospital admissions. (3) Providers are currently required by Medicare to collect 16 days of patient data over a 30-day period in order to bill Medicare for remote monitoring services, even in cases where this full duration is not medically necessary to ensure the health and safety of the patient. This can limit the use of remote monitoring in instances where it can promote patient health and safety and where it can reduce the overall cost on the health system. (4) In the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim policy to lower the duration required by Medicare to bill for remote monitoring services from 16 days to 2 days within a 30-day period, but only for individuals who had been diagnosed with, or were suspected of having, COVID–19. This short-term flexibility called attention to the long-term need to reassess the minimum duration required for providers to bill for remote monitoring. (5) As part of issuing the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule, CMS studied comments in support of permanently lowering the minimum required duration of remote monitoring for all patients, not just those with COVID–19. (6) CMS concluded that we agree that a full 16 days of monitoring may not always be reasonable and necessary but did not revise the 16 day per 30-day period minimum duration for all patients because CMS did not believe they had received specific clinical examples to