Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
CMS Hands Down More State Waivers
Published on Fri May 22, 2020
Regulatory flexibility keeps coming. At press time, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services had approved more than 200 requests for state regulatory relief in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including recent approvals for Iowa, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, and Virginia, the agency said in a release. “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,” CMS said.
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