This is painful: 3Telemedicine out, PBM legislation out, physician pay cut back it and more!

Reprehensible that our Congress won’t legislate and were bamboozled by Elon 3Musk. We have been doing CR’s and have not had any real appropriation bills since the GOP took over the house 2 years ago.

"Before it was scrapped, the deal included a number of healthcare provisions, like historic reforms to #PharmacyBenefitManagers, a bump to physician pay and a long-awaited extension to the #Medicare telehealth flexibilities”

It also allowed first-dollar coverage of #Telehealth for high deductible health plans

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/telehealth-groups-urge-action-medicare-flexibilities-continuing-resolution-panned-trump/736075/

Telehealth groups call for urgent action as Medicare flexibility deadline looms

A sweeping funding bill that would have preserved the pandemic-era policies for two years was derailed by President-elect Donald Trump, less than two weeks before the flexibilities are set to expire.

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