Becker's Healthcare October 13, 2025
The telehealth benefits expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic expired Oct. 1 and the federal government ended CMS reimbursement for many virtual visits.
Hospitals and physician groups have set up broad infrastructure for virtual care and telehealth visits, assuming Congress would eventually make the benefit permanent. Telehealth programs expand access to care and boost interactions between patients and clinicians. But now health systems are grappling to save a service patients like without the funding to keep it afloat.
NYU Langone Health in New York City posted a note on its website telling Medicare and Medicaid patients they’d be unable to schedule new telehealth and virtual visits due to the government shutdown, and offered to schedule in-person visits. Nebraska Medicine in Omaha...
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