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Members of Congress did not come to a budget agreement before the Oct. 1 start of the fiscal year, and a government shutdown of all but "essential" spending is now in effect. CMS has issued some advice to providers.
 
 
The following article will appear in the 9/29/25 issue of Part B News. Subscribers can access more than 400 articles on telehealth and telemedicine.
 
After five years, most – but not all – of Medicare’s telehealth expansions are scheduled to end at midnight, Oct. 1. Even though one quarter of eligible Medicare patients continue to take advantage of the broader telehealth benefit, it seems unlikely that Congress will pass another last-minute extension or a permanent upgrade to Medicare telehealth law to keep the popular policies in place.
 

 

 
 
You'll find five additions to the telehealth-eligible list of codes for CY 2026, along with a lone deletion. CMS published the updated telehealth services list as a supplementary file to the proposed 2026 Medicare physician fee schedule.
 
 
The following chart summarizes the AMA’s March 14 technical corrections related to the new E/M telemedicine codes (98000-98016).
 
 
You know that CMS will not reimburse the new CPT telehealth codes (98000-98015). However, commercial plans are picking them up.
 

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