BCHC and others urge Congress to extend telehealth flexibilities before 2024 deadline
December 2024
The Big Cities Health Coalition and nearly 300 other organizations urged House and Senate leadership to extend telehealth flexibilities before the December 31, 2024, expiration date.
Enhanced access to telehealth services serves as a lifeline to patients across the country, allowing patients to access critical health care services even when they have barriers to accessing in-person care, such as weakened immune systems, transportation challenges, geographic distance, and more.
Telehealth is a bipartisan policy, as demonstrated by the broadly supported 2022 legislation which extended telehealth flexibilities through 2024. We now face a deadline once again.
While the priority is legislation that would establish permanent telehealth policies, achieving this goal could be a multi-year process. As such, in the meantime, it is imperative that Congress act to extend telehealth flexibilities before the December 31, 2024, expiration date.
Ensuring stability for telehealth policy through CY2025 would:
Telehealth is a strongly supported, bipartisan issue. It is crucial that both the House and Senate continue telehealth flexibilities in the year-end package and extend for as long as possible.
