MedPage Today March 24, 2025
— Let’s make the telemedicine option permanent
This week, something good in healthcare that was going away actually got a reprieve.
The end of this month we were coming up on the termination of insurance coverage for telehealth visits for Medicare patients, with the expectation that other insurance companies were probably going to follow along. Although I haven’t read all of the details yet, we’ve heard that Congress has granted a 6-month extension and will continue to cover these services, at least for now. As far as I can tell, this is good news for everybody.
Slow to Catch On
Telehealth visits were an idea that took a long time to come into popular use — a good idea that...