Healthcare IT News October 17, 2022
Among other impacts, ending the PHE would represent access challenges and a loss of Medicaid coverage for millions, and would end medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder without an in-person exam.
Since the COVID-19 public health emergency was declared in 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services has renewed the legislation every 90 days. Close to the end of the most recent expiration date, October 13, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra again signed a renewal determination and it was posted without announcement late in the day.
There had been no official news but a lot of hearsay that the PHE would be renewed once more because the Biden Administration indicated it would give two months’ notice before its expiration....
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