Healthcare Innovation January 21, 2025
Pietje Kobus

Telehealth and hospital-at-home coverage has been extended for three months, but what will happen after?

Richard Eisenberg wrote for FortuneWell on January 10 that “[P]eople 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.”

Eisenberg explained that the new administration stated the 1,500-page legislation needed trimming. “Those Medicare coverage extensions—known as waivers—didn’t make it into the bill.”

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