W&M To Pay For 2-Year Telehealth Extension, Other Health Extenders With PBM, Clinical Lab Offsets

The House Ways & Means Committee on Wednesday will mark up legislation to stretch out several pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities through 2026 and extend certain other Medicare hospital bonuses into 2025, and pay for the initiatives by reforming pharmacy benefit manager policies, phasing in changes to clinical lab pay over a longer period and extending adjustments to hospice pay. The legislation requires PBMs derive no income aside from service fees among a suite of long-discussed reforms to the pharmaceutical middlemen embraced...