When the end of the COVID-19 pandemic comes, it could create major disruptions for U.S. health care.
FILE - A nurse checks on IV fluids while talking to a COVID-19 patient at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles, Dec. 13, 2021. When the end of the COVID pandemic comes, it could create major disruptions for U.S. health care. – When the end of the COVID-19 pandemic comes, it could create major disruptions for a cumbersome U.S. health care system made more generous, flexible and up-to-date technologically through a raft of temporary emergency measures.
But the nonpartisan Urban Institute think tank estimates that about 15 million people could lose Medicaid when the public health emergency ends, at a rate of at least 1 million per month.Congress increased federal Medicaid payments to states because of COVID-19, but it also required states to keep people on the rolls during the health emergency.
“We are focused making sure we hold on to the gains in coverage we have made under the Biden-Harris administration,” said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. “We are at the strongest point in our history and we are going make sure that we hold on to the coverage gains.” A major exception applies to enrollees in private Medicare Advantage plans, which generally do cover telehealth. However, nearly 6 in 10 Medicare enrollees are in the traditional fee-for-service program.Widespread access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments rests on legal authority connected to the public health emergency.
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