Health News Medicare And Telehealth More Restrictive Rules Could Hit Patients In 2025

CMS Offers Good News, Bad News for Telehealth

The 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule boosts virtual care in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, but complicates reimbursement for providers using telehealth from alternate sites, like their ... Read More

Shutdown forces Medicare patients off popular telehealth and hospital-at-home programs

Robert Thornton received personalized hospital care for COVID-19 and pneumonia in his Belvidere, Ill., home in 2024 as part of a Medicare in-home care program that expired October 1. (Photo courtesy ... Read More

Patients go without needed treatment after the government shutdown disrupts a telehealth program

The shutdown, now in its fifth week, halted funding for Medicare’s telehealth program, leaving many patients without vital services. Read More

Physicians Face Medicare Telehealth Woes Amid Federal Government Shutdown

The ongoing US government partial shutdown has unintended consequences for seniors and their doctors as most telehealth appointments are now no longer being covered by Medicare. That’s because without ... Read More

Medicare Telehealth services stopped amidst government shutdown

As of October 1, Medicare's pandemic-era Telehealth service waivers expired, meaning patients who've been able to receive medical care from home have to return to in-person appointments. "It's hard ... Read More

Medicare patients lose telehealth access as government shutdown drags on

It’s day 20 of the government shutdown and millions of Medicare beneficiaries are losing telehealth access, forcing some like Vicki Stearn to pay out of pocket while waiting months for care. Read More

Shutdown forces Medicare patients off telehealth, hospital-at-home programs

The federal government shutdown is forcing a reckoning for two remote health care programs because they automatically expired Oct. 1. The telehealth and in-home hospital care programs were both ... Read More

Shutdown forces Medicare patients off popular telehealth and hospital-at-home programs

The federal government shutdown is forcing a reckoning for two remote health care programs because they automatically expired Oct. 1. The telehealth and in-home hospital care programs were both ... Read More