Year-End Bill Tackles Medicare Rural Health, GME, Oxygen Policies

Congress’ year-end package tackles a wide range of Medicare policies lawmakers discussed throughout 2020, which include addressing workforce shortages through Medicare graduate medical education, extending rural health care programs and codifying CMS’ public-private partnership to find health care waste and fraud. The Republican House Ways & Means Committee released Monday (Dec. 21) a summary of provisions in the year-end bill that touch a variety of subjects, including hospice, post-acute care and expanding coverage for Medicare beneficiaries. Medicare graduate medical education....