H.R. 1107 · Passed House · Armed Forces and National Security

Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025

Sponsor: Steve Womack (R-AR)

What it does

• Authorize VA health care professionals to prescribe and dispense controlled substances via telemedicine without requiring an in-person medical examination.
• Require that the VA health care professional holds an active, current, full, and unrestricted license to prescribe the controlled substance and is acting in the usual course of professional practice.
• Permit distribution of controlled substance prescription drugs to VA-eligible patients for legitimate medical purposes through telemedicine channels.
• Make this telemedicine prescribing authority permanent rather than subject to sunset or periodic reauthorization.

Official summary

Protecting Veteran Access to Telemedicine Services Act of 2025 This bill permanently authorizes certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care professionals to use telemedicine to deliver, distribute, or dispense controlled substances that are prescription drugs to patients who are eligible for VA health care, regardless of whether the health care professional has conducted an in-person medical examination. The health care professional must be (1) authorized to prescribe the basic class of such controlled substance under an active, current, full, and unrestricted license or certification; (2) acting in the usual course of professional practice; and (3) delivering, distributing, or dispensing the substance for a legitimate medical purpose.

Latest action

Sep 16, 2025: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Committee: Senate Veterans' Affairs