How The Shutdown Is Impacting Telehealth And Hospital-At-Home Programs

How The Shutdown Is Impacting Telehealth And Hospital-At-Home Programs

The government shutdown, for the first time, has halted flexibilities for telehealth for Medicare beneficiaries that had been established since the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now, some offices are no longer offering telehealth services, and as a result, some patients must travel to a medical office to receive these services.

 

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The federal shutdown disrupted Medicare telehealth and hospital-at-home programs, forcing many US patients—especially seniors and rural residents—to lose access to convenient virtual healthcare services.

 



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