Medicaid, Telehealth Future: Covid Emergency End Explained (1)

Medicaid coverage for millions of Americans and access to emergency Covid-19 services will be affected by the Biden administration’s announcement that the public health emergency will end May 11.

President Joe Biden said Tuesday that his administration is extending its public health emergency declaration “to make sure we get everything done.”

The emergency declaration enabled the government to ease the way for Americans to obtain government health insurance, helped it authorize drugs and treatments for public use at breakneck speed, and allowed it to tap into other emergency powers to help Americans weather the worst of the pandemic.

The Health ...