Senate Finance Committee Floats Chronic Care Discussion Draft

By Michelle M. Stein / October 27, 2016 at 7:49 PM

The Senate Finance Committee released wide-ranging, bipartisan draft chronic care legislation Thursday (Oct. 27) that among other reforms would extend by two years the Independence at Home demonstration, let kidney-failure patients enroll in Medicare Advantage, ease telehealth restrictions, and change how beneficiaries could be assigned to accountable care organizations.


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