Virtual care platforms, hospital-at-home, utilization data, and the delivery models replacing the waiting room.
The new virtual care practice model bundles chronic condition management, mental health, and primary care around a single member record — Teladoc's answer to the point-solution fatigue plaguing digital health.
February's spending law extended Medicare telehealth flexibilities through December 2027 and hospital-at-home through 2030 — ending the cliff-to-cliff era, but starting a new countdown the industry is already lobbying against.
Alongside the platform launch, the telehealth infrastructure company acquired food-as-medicine startup Season Health and partnered with Happy Sleep on sleep diagnostics — a roll-up posture in full view.
Nearly 400 hospitals are CMS-approved to deliver acute care at home. With the Medicare waiver now secure through 2030, program leaders from Mass General Brigham and Tampa General say participation will 'skyrocket.'
FAIR Health's national tracker shows telehealth rebounding sharply from the late-2025 Medicare funding lapse — with mental health accounting for 52.1% of all telehealth claim lines, the top category in every age group.