HealthLeaders Media March 11, 2025
Eric Wicklund

A continuing resolution now before Congress would extend pandemic-era telehealth and Hospital at Home waivers for six months.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

– Congress is debating a proposed budget bill that would extend key pandemic-era telehealth and Hospital at Home waivers another six months, to September 30.

– The extension follows a three-month extension that was included in the stopgap funding bill last December, but falls far short of the two-year extension originally proposed in Congress or the five-year extension that advocates have recommended.

– Health systems and hospitals who rely on the waivers and Medicare reimbursement to sustain these programs are once again left wondering if they should maintain the status quo or roll these programs up and use the money...

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