Healthcare DIVE November 13, 2025
The pandemic-era virtual care policies are back in place through Jan. 30. But short-term deals aren’t sustainable, telehealth advocates and providers say.
Flexibilities for Medicare telehealth coverage are back in place after Congress passed legislation to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history this week.
The stopgap funding law, which was signed by President Donald Trump late Wednesday, reinstates the pandemic-era virtual care policies through Jan. 30. Those policies include changes like eliminating geographic restrictions for virtual care and allowing all eligible Medicare providers to offer telehealth.
Additionally, the spending plan reauthorizes the CMS’ Acute Hospital Care at Home program — another initiative started during the pandemic that permits hundreds of hospitals across the country to provide inpatient...
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