House E&C Also Targets Medicare Lab Payment Cuts To Pay For Telehealth Bill

By Jalen Brown / May 15, 2024 at 4:24 PM
A second House committee is also looking at using Medicare clinical laboratory payment cuts as a way to help pay for a two-year extension of telehealth flexibilities: A House Energy & Commerce panel plans to follow Ways & Means’ lead by phasing in changes to clinical lab pay over a longer period at a markup Thursday (May 16). E&C lawmakers filed markup amendments Wednesday morning that include the pay-for, along with pharmacy benefit manager reforms. The clinical lab pay-for was...

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