HealthLeaders Media July 25, 2025
While President Trump’s reconciliation package did reinstate first-dollar coverage for HDHP-HSAs, a collection of waivers aimed at boosting coverage for and use of telehealth didn’t make the cut.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– The budget reconciliation package signed into law on July 4 did not, as many telehealth advocates had hoped, extend pandemic-era waivers for telehealth coverage and use, though it did allow first-dollar virtual care coverage for HDHP-HSAs.
– Those waivers are due to expire at the end of September, and could affect how health systems and hospitals plan their virtual care strategies going forward.
– Advocates like the American Telemedicine Association are lobbying the federal government and Congress to either extend or make those waivers permanent.
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