Fortune January 10, 2025
Remember the Peanuts storyline where Lucy yanked the football just as Charlie Brown was about to kick it? Congress recently pulled a similar stunt on Medicare beneficiaries.
But in this case, the result was more than just disappointment and frustration.
Instead, people on Medicare won’t get the two years of continued coverage for telehealth appointments and five years’ for acute hospital at home programs that were in the bill Congress nearly voted into law in December 2024.
Medicare coverage in and out of year-end legislation
That’s because President-elect Donald Trump and his government efficiency advisor Elon Musk said the 1,500-page legislation, to keep the government running, needed trimming. So, those Medicare coverage extensions—known as waivers—didn’t make it into the...
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