Chief Healthcare Executive December 18, 2024
Lawmakers have added measures to prolong telehealth and hospital-at-health programs to a measure to avoid a government shutdown. Telehealth waivers are set to expire at the end of the month.
Just two weeks before telehealth waivers are set to expire, Congress is close to signing off on legislation to extend approval for virtual care programs.
Congress is working on a broad federal spending package to fund government programs into March, and telehealth advocates say the package includes measures to extend telehealth programs.
The package includes a two-year extension for most telehealth programs, and a five-year extension for hospital-at-home programs, according to the American Telemedicine Association.
Congress approved broad extensions of telehealth programs early in the telehealth pandemic, but those waivers...
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