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House Ways and Means subcommittee examines access to post-acute care, telehealth hospice recertification bill
Summary
A House Ways and Means subcommittee opened a hearing focused on access to post-acute care for Medicare beneficiaries, citing data on utilization and improvements and noting recent bipartisan legislation to allow hospice recertification by telehealth.
The House Ways and Means subcommittee opened a hearing to examine access to post-acute care for Medicare beneficiaries and to consider recent bipartisan legislation that would permit hospice recertification by telehealth.
The issue matters because a sizeable share of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries rely on post-acute services on discharge, and policymakers say better access can reduce readmissions and improve outcomes. "Our Medicare program has changed over the past decade, and we are here to make sure that patients have sufficient access to care," the Subcommittee Chair (unnamed) said at the start of the…
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