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89th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Tuesday, November 10, 2026

HF 612: Relating to reimbursement rates for health care services provided to covered persons by telehealth, and including retroactive applicability provisions

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

What it does

This bill requires a health carrier to reimburse a health care professional or facility for health care services provided to a covered person by telehealth on or after January 1, 2021, on the same basis and at the same rate as the health carrier would apply to the same health care services provided to the covered person by the health care professional or facility in person.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 5 for, 2 against

For: Iowa Conference of United Methodist Church; Iowa Hospital Association; Iowa Mental Health Advocacy; Iowa Mental Health Counselors Association; National Alliance on Mental Illness - Iowa

Against: Elevance Health, and its Affiliates dba Anthem, Inc.; Wellmark, Inc.

In plain words

  1. February 18, 2021Filed in the House and sent to the Human Resources committee

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Tuesday, November 10, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/HF612