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Today, at
President Trump’s direction, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) today is issuing an unprecedented array of temporary
regulatory waivers and new rules to equip the American healthcare system
with maximum flexibility to respond to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus
(COVID-19) pandemic. Made possible
by President Trump’s recent emergency declaration and emergency rule
making, these temporary changes will apply immediately across the entire
U.S. healthcare system for the
duration of the emergency declaration. This allows hospitals and health
systems to deliver services at other locations to make room for COVID-19
patients needing acute care in their main facility.
The changes complement and augment
the work of FEMA and state and local public health authorities by
empowering local hospitals and healthcare systems to rapidly expand
treatment capacity that allows them to separate patients infected with
COVID-19 from those who are not affected.
CMS’s temporary actions announced
today empower local hospitals and healthcare systems to:
- Increase Hospital Capacity – CMS Hospitals Without Walls;
- Rapidly Expand the Healthcare Workforce;
- Put Patients Over Paperwork; and
- Further Promote Telehealth in Medicare
You can find a copy of the full press
release here: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/trump-administration-makes-sweeping-regulatory-changes-help-us-healthcare-system-address-covid-19
For additional background information
on the waivers and rule changes, go to: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/additional-backgroundsweeping-regulatory-changes-help-us-healthcare-system-address-covid-19-patient
For more information on the COVID-19
waivers and guidance, and the Interim Final Rule, please go to the CMS
COVID-19 flexibilities webpage: https://www.cms.gov/about-cms/emergency-preparedness-response-operations/current-emergencies/coronavirus-waivers.
These actions, and earlier CMS
actions in response to COVID-19, are part of the ongoing White House
Coronavirus Task Force efforts. To keep up with the important work the Task
Force is doing in response to COVID-19, visit www.coronavirus.gov.
For a complete and updated list of CMS actions, and other information
specific to CMS, please visit the Current
Emergencies Website.
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