Medicare recipients may soon see a significant shift in their telehealth benefits with key services set to expire at the start of April. Posts have circulated on social media about what changes are coming to Medicare coverage.

Medicare members could potentially lose their telehealth benefits next month, with temporary COVID-19 era expansions set to expire without action from Congress. If you're on Medicare, you might have heard a thing or two about cuts coming to what sort of telehealth services your plan covers.

Nearly three-quarters of adults 50 and older said they used telehealth services at least once in the past 12 months, according to a January 2024 AARP poll. Nine in 10 said they we

Providers who offer telehealth services to Medicare patients take note: many key telehealth flexibilities that have been in effect since the

Access to Telehealth expanded during the pandemic, and although many pandemic programs have ceased to exist, telehealth coverage by Medicare kept getting extended, which allowed rural communities—like many in West Virginia— to have greater access to health care.

For Kaye Peterson, 67, the expansion of Medicare telehealth coverage during Covid-19 was a godsend. Peterson, who has Type 1 diabetes and lives in an assisted living facility, no longer drives, so she depends on extended family when she needs in-person appointments with specialists who are roughly an hour away from her home in Lebanon,

Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) posted a video on TikTok informing his 400,000 followers of “breaking news” that “the Trump administration announced that Medicare will stop covering telehealth on April 1st,” and calling for opposition to “stand up to these Medicare cuts.

Providers, patients and digital health companies are ramping up their calls for more certainty that Medicare will continue to reimburse them for telehealth appointments after the current authority to do so expires on April 1.