STAT May 7, 2024
Mario Aguilar, Rachel Cohrs Zhang

A new bill set to be considered on Wednesday by the House Ways & Means Committee would extend for two years telehealth flexibilities for Medicare enrollees that were adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic, and look to reform drug industry middlemen to pay for it.

At the end of the official public health emergency, Congress extended flexibilities that changed where and what kinds of care people could receive over telehealth, but those rules are set to expire at...

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Topics: Congress / White House, Digital Health, Govt Agencies, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology, Telehealth
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