W&M Passes 3 Bipartisan Health Bills; Home-Visit Bill Gets Party-Line Vote

The House Ways & Means Committee unanimously passed three Medicare bills on Wednesday (Sept. 13), but a fourth bill to reauthorize a home visit program passed on a party-line vote because, despite bipartisan support for the program, Democrats don’t like a state-funding match measure or the way that Republicans plan to pay for the legislation. The three bipartisan bills would ease oversight of physician self-referrals, encourage Medicare Advantage plans to cover telehealth services and extend Medicare add-on payments for ground...