Healthcare Finance News December 21, 2024
Stripped out of the final bill is a provision to prevent the 2.8% Medicare pay cut to physicians.
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a spending bill that averts a government shutdown, but some healthcare provisions that were in the original bill didn’t make it to final passage.
Acute hospital-care-at-home and telehealth temporary waivers were continued, but were not given the long-term extensions that were included in a Dec. 18 bipartisan resolution. Both received short-term extensions until March 31.
The original bill extended telehealth for two years and acute hospital care at home by five years.
Stripped out of the bill is a provision to prevent the Medicare pay cut to physicians. This means physicians get a 2.8% Medicare payment...
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