Daily COVID-19 News
Alert
The Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released an Interim Final Rule with
Comment Period (IFC) building on the agency’s efforts to give the American
healthcare system maximum flexibility to respond to the coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Below is a summary of resources and information
available on the rule. View the full rule here.
For more information on
the White House Task Force response to COVID-19, visit www.coronavirus.gov. Additional information
specific to CMS is available at the CMS News Room and Current Emergencies Website.
Press Release: Trump
Administration Issues Second Round of Sweeping Changes to Support U.S.
Healthcare System During COVID-19 Pandemic
The IFC outlines actions
CMS is taking to ensure states and localities have the flexibilities they
need to ramp up diagnostic testing and access to medical care, key precursors
to ensuring a phased, safe, and gradual reopening of America. Read the press release and fact sheet for more details.
Fact Sheets
CMS has updated multiple
fact sheets that summarize changes made through regulatory actions in
response to COVID-19. View more resources available on CMS waivers and
flexibilities here.
A full list of emergency
declaration blanket waivers for health care providers implemented to date is
available here. Additional fact sheets include:
Laboratory and
Testing and Resources
CMS is committed to taking
critical steps to ensure America’s clinical laboratories can respond to the
threat of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses to ensure patient health
and safety.
CMS Hospitals
without Walls Initiative
CMS is allowing healthcare
systems and hospitals to provide services in locations beyond their existing
walls to help address the urgent need to expand care capacity and to develop sites
dedicated to COVID-19 treatment.
Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQs)
Several changes in the IFC
allow additional Medicare payment; CMS has issued FAQs addressing Medicare
Fee-for-Service Billing issues.
Additional Resources
for Stakeholders
CMS has developed a toolkit for stakeholder partners to help you
stay informed on CMS and HHS materials available on COVID-19. Check back
often for the most up-to-date information; please refresh your browser often
to see the most up-to-date information.
Upcoming
COVID-19 Stakeholder Calls
Conference lines are
limited, so we highly encourage you to join via audio webcast, either on your
computer or smartphone web browser. You are welcome to share this invitation
with your colleagues and membership.
To listen to the audio
files and read the transcripts for the COVID-19 Stakeholder calls, visit the Podcast and Transcripts page.
CMS
COVID-19 Office Hours Call - Thursday, May 7th at 5:00 – 6:00
PM Eastern
Audio Webcast link: https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=2ccba159-709ea889-2ccb9066-
0cc47a6a52de-80625c0cb20a4e86&u=https://engage.vevent.com/rt/cms2/index.jsp?seid=2097
Toll Free Attendee
Dial-In: 833-614-0820; Access Passcode: 1181167
Lessons
from the Front Lines - Friday, May 8th at 12:30 – 2:00 PM Eastern
Web Link: https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=0ffb90f8-53ae99eb-0ffba1c7-0cc47adb5650-
044bb37a61085446&u=https://engage.vevent.com/rt/cms2/index.jsp?seid=2039
Toll Free Attendee
Dial-In: 877-251-0301; Access Code: 9146779
Here is a summary of
recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) actions taken in
response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), as part of the ongoing
White House Task Force efforts. To keep up with the important work the Task
Force is doing in response to COVID-19, click here www.coronavirus.gov. For information
specific to CMS, please visit the CMS News Room and Current Emergencies Website. CMS updates
these resources on an ongoing basis throughout the day; the information below
is current as of May 1, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. ET
Health Affairs Blog:
What CMS’s Response to COVID-19 Means for Front Line Clinicians
Health Affairs recently
featured a blog post about what the recent CMS policy changes, including an
unprecedented number of health system waivers and flexibilities, mean for
health care professionals on the front lines. The blog was written by Michael
J. Lipp, MD, Chief Medical Officer for the CMS Center for Medicare &
Medicaid Innovation, and Shari M. Ling, MD, Deputy Chief Medical Officer of
CMS and Medical Officer for the CMS Center for Clinical Standards and
Quality.
CMS Gives States
Additional Flexibility to Address Coronavirus Pandemic
CMS has approved over 145
requests for state relief in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including
recent approvals for Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Rhode
Island, and Wyoming. These approvals help to ensure that states have the
tools they need to combat COVID-19 through a wide variety of waivers,
amendments, and Medicaid state plan flexibilities, including for programs
that care for the elderly and people with disabilities. CMS developed a toolkit to expedite the application and
review of each request and has approved these requests in record time. These
approved flexibilities support President Trump’s commitment to a COVID-19
response that is locally executed, state managed, and federally supported.
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