Healthcare IT News March 31, 2025
After yet another temporary extension of pandemic-era virtual care flexibilities, a partner at healthcare consulting firm Chartis offers a vision for a sustainable future for these promising care models.
On March 15, President Trump signed the continuing resolution passed by Congress, which extended COVID-19-era Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regulations applicable to telehealth and hospital-at-home through September 30, 2025.
It’s only the most recent of several months-long extensions. Healthcare organizations simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief and continued to be frustrated that their ability to plan for the future was limited once again.
For telehealth, the CR extended flexibilities that remove geographic boundaries and expand telehealth service originating locations (including patients’ homes), permit more providers and services to...