Modern Healthcare June 24, 2020
Lawmakers and regulators worked quickly to increase flexibilities for healthcare providers and impose requirements on health insurers during the COVID-19 pandemic, but several of those important changes are tied to the length of the HHS secretary’s public health emergency declaration.
The current public health emergency determination expires in July, but HHS can choose to renew it for a 90-day period. HHS already renewed it once in April. The American Hospital Association wrote to HHS on Friday pleading for an extension this summer until testing and medical supply production is higher.
“We anticipate the challenges associated with COVID-19 that our members and communities face every day will continue throughout several months, and potentially another entire year if we continue to experience...
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