Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
CMS Updates COVID-19 PHE Fact Sheets
As promised, CMS is changing and adding information to its COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) fact sheets … again. First: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been consistently updating and adding regulatory changes to provider and supplier fact sheets on COVID-related waivers and flexibilities since the onset of the PHE. On Feb. 1, the Biden Administration announced the end of the PHE was slated for May 11, and CMS updated the fact sheets. “These fact sheets include information about which waivers and flexibilities have already been terminated, have been made permanent, or will end at the end of the PHE,” CMS says on its website. On Feb. 9, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final PHE renewal that went into effect on Feb. 11 and offered providers advice on transitioning to a post-PHE landscape (see Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement, Vol. 49, No. 4). Next: On Feb. 24, CMS offered more changes and updates on the 17 different fact sheets. Check out the materials at www. cms.gov/coronavirus-waivers. Now: On Feb. 27, CMS released another resource, the “What Do I Need to Know” fact sheet, to help providers prepare for the transition. Find the latest release at www.cms.gov/files/ document/what-do-i-need-know-cms-waivers-flexibilities-and-transition-forward-covid-19-public-health.pdf.
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