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H.R. 5621119th CongressIn committeeLatest action Sep 30, 2025Decoded by AI · checked against the record
Official title: Physical Therapist Workforce and Patient Access Act of 2025
Introduced:
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Starting in 2027, Medicare must cover physical therapy at rural and low-income clinics, and physical therapists can get federal student loan help.
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This bill adds physical therapists to a federal program that helps pay off student loans for health workers who work in areas short on providers. It also requires Medicare to cover physical therapy services at Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers beginning January 1, 2027.
Physical therapists with student debt who are open to working in underserved areas would be eligible for loan repayment help. Medicare patients in rural or low-income communities who currently have limited access to physical therapy through these clinics would gain new coverage options.
Areas with too few health providers may attract more physical therapists if those therapists can get help paying off their loans. Requiring Medicare to cover physical therapy at these clinics means more patients in underserved areas could access that care.
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Right now: a House committee is reviewing it. If the Senate changes it, it goes back to the House before reaching the President.
Latest action: — Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.