Extend Medicare telehealth access for an additional two years and advance related program reforms so seniors can continue receiving care at home.

bipartisan legislation they introduced which would extend Medicare patients’ access to telehealth services for an additional two years, as well as make needed program reforms so seniors can continue to receive critical medical care at home

Schweikert co-introduced legislation to extend Medicare telehealth access and make related reforms.

Schweikert, Thompson Celebrate Committee Passage of Legislation Extending Telehealth Services for Medicare Patients – Congressman Schweikert
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House committee section-by-section materials for H.R. 7148 state that Sec. 209 extends Medicare telehealth flexibilities through December 31, 2026, adds a special payment rule for telehealth services furnished by Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics, and adds modifiers for certain telehealth uses; Sec. 210 also requires a new modifier for hospice face-to-face telehealth recertification encounters; Sec. 211 extends Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver flexibilities through December 31, 2029; Sec. 214 allows certain cardiopulmonary rehabilitation services to be furnished via telehealth at a beneficiary’s home under Medicare in 2025 and 2026.

Concrete legislative action moved forward, but the broad telehealth extension was through 2026 rather than the full extra two years promised, and the related home-care reforms were narrower than the campaign claim.

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Documents for the Record
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CMS says its CY 2026 updates reflect section 6209 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, which extended the ability of PTs, OTs, and SLPs to furnish telehealth services, including telephone assessment and management codes 98966-98968, through December 31, 2027, and adds revised remote therapeutic monitoring codes.

CMS implementation confirms a later-law extension of some Medicare telehealth services through 2027, but it is limited to therapy providers and related billing reforms rather than the full promise of broad senior telehealth access at home.

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Therapy Services | CMS
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CMS’s telehealth page says additions or deletions to the Medicare telehealth services list are made effective on a January 1 basis and that the annual physician fee schedule is the vehicle CMS uses for those changes; the page was updated with a February 26, 2026 telehealth FAQ.

CMS is still actively administering and updating Medicare telehealth policy, which is evidence the issue remains live and not fully settled in a one-time permanent way.

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Telehealth | CMS
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