Lexology December 24, 2024
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

US Congress on December 20, 2024 passed a last-minute temporary government funding bill that keeps the government open for three months. As part of this package, a number of existing telehealth flexibilities were also extended to March 31, 2025. This includes the flexibility permitting the use of audio/video telehealth technologies to conduct hospice face-to-face visits, which many hospices and their physicians and nurse practitioners have come to rely upon since Medicare allowed that flexibility during the COVID public health emergency.

While the original funding bill had proposed a two-year extension to this flexibility,...

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