Monday, February 24, 2025

Telehealth Appointments Through Medicare Are About to Expire

Medicare's flexibility for covering other health and medical services via telehealth has since been repeatedly extended, but the last of those extensions is effective only through March 31, 2025.

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The federal government's recent cuts to Medicare, including telehealth, make it more difficult for Americans to access the healthcare they need. We simply can't reduce healthcare options for seniors. I'm running for Congress to defend Medicare and telehealth. secure.actblue.com/donate/weil- ...

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-- Josh Weil for Congress (@joshweil.bsky.social) February 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM

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Now, Medicare patients and providers who have come to rely on remote health care delivery are anxiously wondering: Will the Federal Government grant a further extension of Medicare telehealth flexibilities--or perhaps permanently allow Medicare to cover a full range of telehealth services? Or is the era of expanded Medicare telehealth coverage coming to an end?

"Congressional action is required to prevent the severe limitations on telehealth that existed before the COVID-19 pandemic from being restored," said American Medical Association president Bruce A. Scott, MD, in a communique earlier this month. "We must make these flexibilities permanent and secure telehealth's future as an essential element of our patient toolbox, and ensure that all Americans--including rural, underserved, and historically marginalized populations--can receive full access to the care they need," he stated.


If you or someone love rely on these appts, contact your senators, representative, governor, etc. ASAP.

#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-22 12:39 PM

Medicare defenders slam 'obscene' looming cuts to telehealth coverage

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#2 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-22 03:52 PM

Telehealth expiring just in time for the next Trump pandemic.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-24 12:18 PM

Elon Musk is incompetent.robably the lowest cost form of healthcare so I suspect that idiot Musk is behind the cut.

#4 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-24 12:38 PM

The billionaires won the last election and telehealth was a form of "working from home" that cut into real estate profits but also cut into insurance company profits. And those real estate and insurance companies don't like it when you cut into their profits.

By making it more cumbersome to see a doctor, some people will forgo it so the insurance companies win.
And if too many people got their healthcare via the phone, doctors and therapists might downsize their office space. So now landlords win. Especially the mega landlords.

But 77 million of our neighbors voted for this. Sad how easy it is to con the American public.

#5 | Posted by prius04 at 2025-02-24 01:38 PM

Suckers and losers.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-24 01:54 PM

"But 77 million of our neighbors voted for this. Sad how easy it is to con the American public."
If you look at SAT scores or IQ scores they are often evaluated by percentile, the lowest scores and IQs are always the majority. That is not to say the Democrats didn't run a pathetic campaign but the majority is stupid and the stupid won but I'm not going to be one of those Democrats who blame ourselves for openly saying we lost to the stupid majority, We did but now the stupid majority is beginning to realize they lost to the stupid majority too!

#7 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-24 01:58 PM

The billionaires won the last election and telehealth was a form of "working from home" that cut into real estate profits but also cut into insurance company profits. And those real estate and insurance companies don't like it when you cut into their profits.
By making it more cumbersome to see a doctor, some people will forgo it so the insurance companies win.
And if too many people got their healthcare via the phone, doctors and therapists might downsize their office space. So now landlords win. Especially the mega landlords.
But 77 million of our neighbors voted for this. Sad how easy it is to con the American public.
#5 | Posted by prius04 at 2025-02-24 01:38 PM

Agreed.

Citizens United has effectively redistributed priorities through bribes and propaganda away from universal healthcare.

There will be no legal remedies.

There will be no federally funded services.

There will be no public access or options.

There will be chaos.

THEN the public system will be collapsed, incapable of legal or monetary reliance from this administration.

Change "working from home" to "working from bridge".

#8 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-02-24 02:03 PM

Well, this makes perfect sense to get rid of this Telehealth thing. Doctors should be required to come into the office, every day! We can't have them literally phoning it in! If they are not in the office, how can anyone take attendance? As for patients, well, who cares about them, with all their head colds and heart attacks...
--Muskrats on the special 'Medical Arts' team of DOGE

#9 | Posted by catdog at 2025-02-24 02:13 PM

"Agreed."

No. I do not agree.ost was negligible.

I don't give Musk or DOGE credit for being smart enough to have thought any of their cuts out enough to have come up with any such reasons. That would have required some thought even if the reasons they came up with were entirely stupid. No, this was a Pavlovian response to any benefit or sevice available to most of the American people even if the cost was negligible. Do you actually think it saves money to discoutage or even refuse to vaccinate people? As compared to seeing them come into the ER? The cost cutting being done now will eventually be shown to have increased costs to the government; this is just a show so that they can claim to have offset the cost of 3 trillion dollars in tax cuts which you can expect to see proposed by Republicans in time to be passed just before the mid-term elections which they aleready know they will probably lose and that is why they must pass those cuts before those elections; they won't be able to pass them afterwards. So, eveything being done now is just about those tax cuts. That's what the billionaires bought and, by God, that's what they expect to get no matter what!

#10 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-24 02:54 PM

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