Days until current Medicare telehealth flexibilities expire:

18

days

21

hours

22

minutes

20

seconds

Deadline: March 31, 2025

Congress recently passed a short term extension of critical telehealth flexibilities — but now millions of American patients will still face a potential telehealth cliff in March. Urgent action is needed to safeguard telehealth access, and provide the longer-term certainty necessary to unlock the full potential of virtual care for patients. 

TELEHEALTH: VITAL FOR EVERY COMMUNITY

TELEHEALTH ACCESS SUPPORTS:

Better Health Outcomes
Better Quality of Life
Greater Health Equity
More Patient Choice
Lower Costs

YOUR ACCESS IS AT RISK

URGENT action from Congress is required to permanently protect access to vital telehealth services in every American community.

During the pandemic, restrictions on telehealth were suspended through public health emergency (PHE) waivers. Congress passed, and the President signed into law, a two-year extension of these critical flexibilities at the end of 2022.

BUT without additional action from Congress to make these flexibilities permanent, millions of people could face another telehealth cliff and risk losing access to the care they value, such as mental health care, prescription drugs, and more.

Lost access to telehealth would mean:

  • Patients with chronic conditions like diabetes & heart disease may have fewer care options to maintain their quality of life.
  • Patients with health challenges may need to seek care through more costly settings, such as emergency room visits to address health concerns.
  • Patients & caregivers may be forced to travel across state lines to see specialists.
  • Reduced access to mental & behavioral health providers.

CONGRESS MUST ACT.

THE SOLUTION: PROTECT REMOTE CARE ACCESS

Protecting and expanding access to telehealth has strong bipartisan support in Congress and is championed by patients and health care providers across the country.
Now, lawmakers must meet the moment and act now to permanently protect access to telehealth services for every person in America.

Connect with us on social media and join us in protecting virtual care access

FACT: Heart failure impacts more than 6.7 million patients in the U.S.

Enhancing access to care using #telehealth is a priority for improving outcomes among older adults with heart failure, increasing quality of care and decreasing costs. More:

#Telehealth is effective at reducing patients’ unplanned heart failure hospitalizations, length of stay and mortality rate.

Congress must permanently protect telehealth flexibilities for patients who rely on it. More:

🚨As the new #telehealth flexibility deadline looms, time is running out for Congress to protect virtual care for the millions of patients who rely on this vital service. These flexibilities will expire without urgent action from Congress.

More:

OUR MEMBERS