After disruption from President-elect Donald Trump and his close advisor and businessman Elon Musk, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a debt ceiling measure that included an extension of some health programs and a continuing resolution to keep the government open until March 14, but dropped provisions that would have regulated...Arizona News
A year-end drama is raging on Capitol Hill as Republican lawmakers debate raising the debt ceiling in a major piece of budget legislation that includes concessions to Democrats including healthcare policies like telehealth and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) regulation.
Late Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice...
Providers, payers and the government have yet to reach a consensus on how telehealth services will be compensated following the COVID-19 pandemic and the waivers that the public health emergency allowed.
During the pandemic, Congress required that insurance companies pay equally for virtual visits as it would for in-person care for...
Last Saturday marked the third anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a worldwide pandemic.
As the Arizona Republic points out in a retrospective, since that declaration, COVID-19 has killed more than 1.1 million Americans and 33,000 Arizonans.
There were 4,262 new cases of COVID-19 in Arizona this week with 56 new deaths related...
Industry stakeholders and patient advocacy organizations are urging Congress to pass legislation that would solidify telehealth waivers passed by the CARES Act during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE).
The vast majority of providers see telehealth as an opportunity to improve patient services and 94% of patients who have had...
Last Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill ahead of the Christmas deadline. The legislation includes big news for the healthcare sector, which responded to the bill with mixed feelings.
One major health policy provision in the package extends key Medicare telehealth flexibilities and...
On Tuesday morning, Congressional lawmakers unveiled a titanic omnibus spending bill that includes a 2% cut to Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors, an extension of the telehealth and hospital-at-home waivers, and several other measures that would unwind policies enacted during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) prior to the...
