{"id":23407,"date":"2024-09-25T12:15:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T16:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23407"},"modified":"2024-09-25T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T16:15:26","slug":"congress-faces-year-end-deadline-to-extend-medicare-telehealth-flexibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23407","title":{"rendered":"Congress Faces Year-End Deadline to Extend Medicare Telehealth Flexibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by David Raths for healthcare innovation on September 24, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Telehealth Modernization Act would also extend Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver flexibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A trade association focused on telehealth advocacy continues to support efforts in Congress to extend many of the Medicare telehealth flexibilities enacted during the pandemic that are due to expire on Dec. 31, 2024. These include the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver flexibilities and the ability to prescribe clinically appropriate controlled substances remotely. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcinnovationgroup.com\/population-health-management\/telehealth\/news\/55142354\/congress-faces-year-end-deadline-to-extend-medicare-telehealth-flexibilities\">Here..<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-17791\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful.jpg 1254w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by David Raths for healthcare innovation on September 24, 2024 Telehealth Modernization Act would also extend Acute Hospital Care at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1248,12,10,14,6],"tags":[385,61,103],"class_list":["post-23407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-technology","category-health-care-general","category-legislative-update","category-medical-technology","category-medicare-general","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-medicare","tag-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23408,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23407\/revisions\/23408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}