Healthcare Finance News October 14, 2022
The current 90-day extension ends on January 11, 2023.
The Biden Administration has extended the public health emergency for the 11th time since the declaration was first made in January 2020.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra issued another 90-day declaration on Thursday, October 13. The current extension ends on January 11, 2023, Telehealth waivers, granted under the public health emergency, will expire 151 days after the end of PHE.
Former HHS Secretary Alex Azar issued the first declaration on January 31, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic was just beginning to ramp up in the United States. Azar renewed the PHE on April 21, 2020, July 23, 2020, October 2, 2020, and January 7, 2021.
Becerra continued those renewals...