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Ms. Toad

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4. It's not a cut.

Reply to bluestarone (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 5, 2025, 06:27 PM

Mar 2025

The exception to the bar on telehealth visits expires on March 31, 2025. It was a temporary exception intended to make health care possible at the peak of COVID.

Congress should extend it, and make it permanent. But the ability to have Medicare pay for it had an expiration date when it was created a few years ago.

As for whether it is allowed in all states - that is a different mater from whether Medicare will pay for it. That is a decision governed by the laws of each state. Some have generous telehealth laws - some a lot more restricted. But that is a matter for a state solution, not a federal one.

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From what I understand Medicare will stop covering Telehealth Video Visits starting April 1. If that is so it would be [View all] JohnSJ Mar 2025 OP

My husband has a telehealth appointment with a specialist every 6 months. He doesn't really want to drive Vinca Mar 2025 #1

This isn't a Trump thing. Ms. Toad Mar 2025 #6

That may be, but with this Congress there isn't a chance they will pass it, and even in December under Biden there JohnSJ Mar 2025 #8

I'm hoping it will not cut this. In Northern states especially could be a problem. But bluestarone Mar 2025 #2

It's not a cut. Ms. Toad Mar 2025 #4

This deadline has nothing directly to do with November 5. Ms. Toad Mar 2025 #3

Sure it does. If we would have won the majority and the presidency, it would have been extended. Nothing was going JohnSJ Mar 2025 #9

There were plenty of opportunities to extend them before December 2024. Ms. Toad Mar 2025 #10

Not to mention putting fragile at risk Horse with no Name Mar 2025 #5

I can verify that Hokie Mar 2025 #7

Telehealth is also JBTaurus83 Mar 2025 #11

Odds are it will continue once a new budget or Continuing Resolution is passed. Silent Type Mar 2025 #12