President signs federal spending package funding HHS, health-related programs

President Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon signed a massive funding package that includes significant health policy funding (Source: “Trump signs $1.2T spending package that funds HHS, enacts PBM reforms, telehealth and hospital-at-home measures,” Fierce Healthcare, Feb. 3).
 
The funding package includes $116.6 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of Health and Human Services and finalizes several key healthcare extenders, including provisions of the Medicare telehealth program and the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, as well as major supplementary funding programs for rural hospitals and those with high proportions of government-covered patients.