Politico July 1, 2025
WASHINGTON WATCH
A wide variety of health and tech interests hope for a telehealth win in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The version the Senate passed today would revive and make permanent a rule allowing high-deductible health plans to cover telehealth visits before individuals on the plans have hit their deductibles.
Congress began allowing the virtual doctor visits with the 2020 pandemic relief law known as the CARES Act and extended the coverage through the end of last year, when the extension expired.
The provision is a top priority for ATA Action, a telehealth trade group whose members include insurers like Cigna, providers like Intermountain Healthcare and tech giants like Amazon.
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