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,

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.

In February 2025, a rumor spread that Medicare would stop covering telehealth services — which allow patients to access health care remotely using digital technology — as of April 1, 2025.

The pandemic expansion of Medicare telehealth will expire March 31 unless Congress acts to extend Medicare telehealth expansion.

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.