Alongside its failure to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program before it expired, Congress also let dozens of other federal health initiatives expire at the end of September, according to STAT.
The initiatives, such as the Medicare Independence at Home Demonstration, are typically not controversial. However, because they are smaller initiatives, they are usually lumped into a larger bill. In the past, they were reauthorized when Congress updated or suspended the physician fee schedule, according to the report. However, when the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate was repealed in 2015, the initiatives lost their legislative home.
Many lobbyists have suggested adding the programs to the CHIP reauthorization, according to the report. However, the CHIP funding bill is currently stalled in the House.
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