Congress has made permanent a pandemic-era telehealth provision for millions of Americans with high-deductible health plans.

Tricare's telehealth coverage also extends to mental health appointments. Mental telehealth appointments can be especially convenient for users participating in talk therapy since the appointments ...

Initially, this expansion of Medicare telehealth coverage was supposed to end on Dec. 31, 2024. As that deadline approached, Congress passed the American Relief Act, which was signed into law by ...

Making telehealth coverage expansions permanent could lead people to use their insurance coverage more often by making care more convenient, thus costing private insurance companies more money.

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 ...

Some of the expanded telehealth coverage was planned until the end of the "public health emergency," which isn't in sight, Weber said. He seldom used telehealth before COVID-19 because of all the ...

Telemedicine is having a moment, one industry leaders say is a longtime coming ... only 17% of Americans are even aware that their health system or insurance provider offers telemedicine coverage.

Medicare has extended coverage of remote health care. While telehealth removed barriers to care for many during the pandemic, some say there is more to be done. By Paula Span Ben Forsyth had ...

For Kaye Peterson, 67, the expansion of Medicare telehealth coverage during Covid-19 was a godsend. Peterson, who has Type 1 diabetes and lives in an assisted living facility, no longer drives, so ...

“The future of health care should and must include telehealth.” Insurance coverage expands. Before COVID-19, most Chicago-area health systems weren’t offering much in the way of telehealth.