HealthLeaders Media October 8, 2025
With pandemic-era telehealth and Hospital at Home waivers expiring, executives are curtailing or ending some virtual care services. Supporters, meanwhile, are lobbying to extend those flexibilities or make them permanent.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Several pandemic-era telehealth waivers and the CMS waiver for its Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCaH) program expired on Sept. 30.
– Advocates are hoping those flexibilities will be included in any upcoming budget resolution to end the federal shutdown.
– For now, health system and hospital executives are reverting to pre-pandemic telehealth reimbursement rules, which limit who can bill Medicare, where telehealth can be used and what providers are eligible to receive reimbursement.
Health system and hospital leaders are cutting telehealth and Hospital at Home programs...
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