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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

There will always be differences among state laws on telehealth coverage, but what is remarkable is the rapidly increasing pace at which states have been adopting coverage statutes in the last few ...

“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.

In Arizona, a new law mandates commercial insurers to cover more forms of care via telehealth, such as remote patient monitoring and asynchronous visits. Payers must also cover telemedicine visits ...