{"id":25142,"date":"2025-11-12T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25142"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:58:17","slug":"government-would-extend-medicare-telehealth-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25142","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Government would\u00a0extend Medicare telehealth coverage\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On October 1st, Medicare\u2019s authority to pay for telehealth care outside of rural health settings expired. This caused providers to cancel appointments or face not being paid for services rendered. Now, the Senate deal to reopen the government would extend Medicare telehealth coverage through January 30th and pay retroactively for telehealth services delivered during the government shutdown. However, the deal still needs to be passed by Congress. To understand how this could impact you, read Maya Goldman\u2019s article for Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/11\/12\/shutdown-deal-extends-medicare-telehealth-coverage\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/11\/12\/shutdown-deal-extends-medicare-telehealth-coverage\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-17865\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1191287538senior-scam-elder-fraud-theft-dishonest-shock.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1191287538senior-scam-elder-fraud-theft-dishonest-shock.jpg 1254w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1191287538senior-scam-elder-fraud-theft-dishonest-shock-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1191287538senior-scam-elder-fraud-theft-dishonest-shock-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1191287538senior-scam-elder-fraud-theft-dishonest-shock-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 1st, Medicare\u2019s authority to pay for telehealth care outside of rural health settings expired. This caused providers to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,238,61,1045],"class_list":["post-25142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-telehealth-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25143,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25142\/revisions\/25143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}