Politico September 26, 2025
WASHINGTON WATCH
The week ahead
Congress will return next week with just two days to agree on a funding solution needed to avoid a government shutdown — and the future of health care is part of the divide. Here’s how talks of a shutdown are impacting telehealth.
— Democrats and Republicans can’t agree on whether measures to fund the government, which need to be finalized before Tuesday at 11:59 p.m., will address temporary funding for telehealth.
— Medicare has covered telehealth visits under a bill that’s been continuously extended for the past five years, but that funding is set to expire at the end of this month.
— A stopgap bill introduced by House GOP leaders last week would have...
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