HealthIT Answers November 24, 2025
ICYMI, here is recent communication from CMS.
Update on Processing of Medicare Claims Impacted During the Government Shutdown – November 20, 2025
Multiple expiring Medicare statutory payment provisions lapsed on October 1, 2025, due to the absence of Congressional action. With the passage of the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 (Pub. L. 119-37), Congress retroactively restored many of these payment provisions, effective from October 1, 2025, through January 30, 2026. This includes retroactively restoring the suspension of statutory provisions that restrict payment for telehealth services provided to beneficiaries in their homes and outside of rural areas.
During the shutdown, in general, the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) processed claims consistent with the pricer...
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