This bill establishes a federal grant program to expand mental health and substance use treatment services delivered through telehealth to underserved rural populations and workers in farming, fishing, and forestry industries. Grant recipients—public or nonprofit telemental health providers—would use funding to deliver services to patients in their homes, develop quality metrics comparing telehealth to traditional in-person care, and improve infrastructure like broadband access and patient devices needed to support remote mental health services. The bill allocates up to $10 million annually from fiscal years 2025 through 2029 for the program and requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to Congress every three years on the effectiveness and quality of home-based telemental health services. By targeting rural health professional shortage areas and occupational groups with historically limited access to mental health care, the bill aims to address mental health disparities in communities where providers and services are scarce.
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