Lexology April 2, 2020
Federal and state agencies continue to deliver tools and information to help healthcare providers respond to the COVID-19 pandemic since the President declared the COVID-19 outbreak a national emergency. The declaration gave the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) authority to temporarily waive or modify certain requirements of federal healthcare programs. As such, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), an HHS agency, has issued updated guidance for nursing homes, home health agencies, hospitals, and emergency departments, which we covered here.
More recently, CMS issued temporary regulations that, among other things, allow hospitals to increase capacity, remove barriers to providing patient care and employing additional providers, and promote greater use of telehealth.
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