With the latest Stopgap legislation, Congress has once again expanded health care citizens from health care, from March 31 to the end of September. However, the short period of this last extension is a red sign, as some health care organizations say.
Why do it matter
The continuous decision in the 2015 fiscal year prevented earlier this month the closure of the federal government and a distance from another six -month medical care patients.
“We have avoided the closure of health care services,” Kyle Zebli, CEO of the American Remote Training Association and ATA, said in a statement in a statement of March 15.
Congress also gave permission to health care visits to a remote to a wide range of sites – including the patient’s home. The types of additional qualified providers may also provide virtual care.
“By including these provisions in this Stopgap legislation, Congress has sent a very clear message that health care is an essential part of providing care and that we should not reflect the great progress in updating our health care system.”
Previous extensions resulted in flexibility in the field of health care to the end of one -year period, which prompted disturbing notes between feelings of support from the health care sector.
“HIMSS strongly supports the insertion of Congress to extend the short -term health care services remotely in the continuous decision in the 2015 fiscal year, while maintaining vital access to the care capabilities available for millions of medical care patients,” said a spokesman for the organization’s government relations team on Wednesday.
“However, more measures are needed to expand the program until after this fiscal year. We will continue to press for a sustainable and long -term solution, and we look forward to working with Congress to make health care permanently for all beneficiaries Health care news.
ATA also said that it also found the new “Celehealth Cliff” that takes six months in relation to, in addition to the number of health care programs that expired or absent from the decision.
Zelly said: “The short period of the included additions is an obstacle to a long -term certainty, and health care programs continue to be excluded from the other basic dimension that has expired or absent from the final bill in preventing millions of individuals from reaching the necessary care.”
Atta said on Wednesday that Zeppeli was referring to three specific programs.
The state’s first coverage of the state’s HSA HesASAS program, which has ended in December, can pay 32 million Americans from distance health care services, which is “that cannot be affected by many.”
Also, in 2023, legislators were not taken to health care benefits for part -time employees or contractors and cardiac rehabilitation services at home for hundreds of thousands of patients by legislators.
“We must fix this, for the sake of patients, doctors, and our patient’s health care system,” Zilli said.
At the time of the press, the official US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services Happing Policy update page for a distance It did not reflect the new legislative changes.
The Stopgap Fy25, which was also approved by Congress, also expanded the care program at the Hospital at home until September, allowing hospitals approved by medical care to provide patient care in patients’ homes.
In October, the American Medical Care Centers and Medicaid released a study Low spending on medical care in general showed In addition to the low death rates-compared to the care of internal brick and mortar patients.
The biggest direction
Health care has become a distance Biblical for medical careEspecially where patients use virtual care for behavioral health services. Thus, Congress made the coverage of medical care for permanent remote behavior in December 2020.
Since then, the legislators kicked the box on the road on other benefits.
It has been extended for two years for medical care for the proposed dimension in December, or a permanent extension that may cost $ 25 billion over 10 years through the estimates of the Congress Budget Office, unlikely before voting on the spending bill, according to March 17. a report In Kaiser Family Foundation Health News.
“President Trump and Elon Musk dismantled the ongoing decision last December, which would have expanded the two-year health care authorities,” Democratic Representative Ro Khanna, D-California said in an email obtained by KFF.
It is said that the costs of healthcare coverage from the expanded dimension of CBO were based on the number of $ 663 million for a period of five months of expanded coverage and expected spending at the fiscal year 2031.
“Trump must work with Congress to expand the scope of health care coverage of the beneficiaries of medical care,” Khanna said in the story.
In the record
“We also encourage Dr. Mohamed Oz’s comments [March 14] In the Senate confirmation session. like President Trump’s candidate To lead the Medicare and Medicaid services centers, he stressed a remote as a “great focus” and stressed “it is one of the areas that I think we will be able to achieve large ways because there are no opponents for this.”
“This clearly indicates that the administration is looking at health care as a vital thing for our health care system.”
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