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89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 294: Relating to reimbursement rates for health care services for mental health conditions, illnesses, injuries, or diseases provided to covered persons by telehealth, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on May 24, 2022. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

See the fiscal note

6 million for the first year of implementation. As health care costs increase and utilization patterns change, additional costs are expected in subsequent fiscal years. Fiscal Note Fiscal Services Division 2 Telehealth Claims Paid Through Medicaid Currently, t…

Senate subcommittee · named March 10, 2021

  • Sen. Jeff Edler (R)
  • Sen. Mark Costello (R) · mark.costello@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Liz Mathis (D)

Lobbying · 34 for, 2 against

For: Autism Speaks; Blank Childrens Hospital; Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa; CHAIN; CHILDSERVE; Coalition for Family and Children's Services in Iowa; Common Good Iowa; Des Moines University; Disability Rights Iowa; Easterseals Iowa; Epilepsy Foundation Iowa; EveryStep; and 22 more

Against: Federation of Iowa Insurers; SmileDirectClub, LLC

In plain words

  1. January 28, 2021Filed in the House
  2. February 3, 2021Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  3. March 8, 2021Passed the House, 95–1
  4. March 8, 2021Arrived in the Senate
  5. March 10, 2021Senate subcommittee named: Edler, Costello and Mathis

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/HF294