Healthcare DIVE September 17, 2025
The continuing resolution would fund the government, and preserve the telehealth flexibilities, through Nov. 21.
Dive Brief:
- Republicans in the House Appropriations Committee released a continuing resolution Tuesday that would preserve Medicare telehealth flexibilities for seven more weeks, narrowly averting an end-of-month deadline when the policy changes are set to expire.
- Under the bill, the pandemic-era flexibilities, which include policies that remove geographic restrictions for telehealth and expand the types of clinicians who can provide virtual care, would be preserved through Nov. 21.
- However, the continuing resolution makes no mention of extending more generous financial assistance for people who buy health plans on the Affordable Care Act exchanges. Extending the subsidies has been a major concern for Democrats, who...
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