Politico August 9, 2024
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COST OF DELAYS — Congress is widely expected to extend rules expanding telehealth access for Medicare patients that expire at year’s end, likely after the election. That timeline will have consequences.
Tens of millions of beneficiaries have used telehealth since pandemic-era rules to help avert the spread of Covid were enacted in 2020, and Congress has backed continuing the popular provisions. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services doesn’t have the authority to extend the rules without Congress, and has proposed to let them sunset at the end of 2024.
The House Ways and Means Committee advanced a two-year extension of the rules earlier this year, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee has advanced its own...
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