Medicare’s telehealth services are set to resume under the agreement to reopen the government, bringing back the pandemic-era service that allows doctors to conduct about 5% of Medicare’s overall ...

High telehealth use is associated with more clinician encounters, hospitalizations, and higher total healthcare costs for Medicare beneficiaries, according to new research. The study published in JAMA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People 65 and older can’t always travel to doctors’ offices easily. That makes Medicare coverage of telehealth a necessity for ...

In February 2025, a rumor spread that Medicare would stop covering telehealth services — which allow patients to access health care remotely using digital technology — as of April 1, 2025. On Feb. 20, ...

Medicare members could potentially lose their telehealth benefits next month, with temporary COVID-19 era expansions set to expire without action from Congress. If you’re on Medicare, you might have ...

On March 14, 2025, as part of a spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, Congress extended COVID-era telehealth “waivers” applicable to Medicare until September 30, 2025. These were ...

On March 15, 2025, President Trump signed a continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown, which included a critical six-month extension of Medicare telehealth flexibilities through September ...

With the federal government now reopened after more than a month, the recently passed House funding bill, H.R.5371, also restores critical telehealth access by extending Medicare flexibilities through ...

Medicare telehealth flexibilities and hospital at home program were created by the Trump administration at the onset of the pandemic. Congress has not yet made a permanent plan for the programs.

Medicare Advantage enrollees should expect to receive their Annual Notice of Change from the chosen plan provider via mail or ...

Audio-only telehealth visits declined from 31 percent of all telehealth visits in 2020 to 25.4 percent in 2022, according to new research published in JAMA Health Forum. Researchers from Weill Cornell ...