Temporary regulatory waivers and new rules to equip the American healthcare system with maximum flexibility
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This graphic overview says the Trump Administration issued an unprecedented array of temporary regulatory waivers and new rules to give the American healthcare system maximum flexibility in responding to COVID-19. It says people with Medicare can now get telehealth services from home, and that patients can consult by phone with a doctor, nurse practitioner, psychologist, and others. Hospitals and dialysis centers can set up COVID-only centers to help reduce transmission. It says Medicare will pay providers licensed in one state to provide care in a different state if needed, and that prior authorization documentation requirements are temporarily suspended. A drive-up testing center is available to a person with a physician order for a lab test for COVID-19.
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“Temporary regulatory waivers and new rules to equip the American healthcare system with maximum flexibility.”
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The Trump Administration issued an unprecedented array of temporary regulatory waivers and new rules to equip the American healthcare
system with maximum flexibility to respond to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This unprecedented temporary relaxation in
regulation will help the healthcare system deal with any patient surges by giving it tools and support to create non-traditional care sites and staff
them quickly.
Telehealth Making the Most Use of Community
People with Medicare can now get telehealth services Health Care Resources
from their home, increasing their access to care. Hospitals can transfer patients to different types of units
and facilities to keep patients safe and free up beds.
Care by Phone
Patients can consult with a doctor, nurse practitioner, COVID-only Care Centers
psychologist, and others and During the Public Health Emergency, hospitals and
Medicare will cover it. dialysis centers can set up COVID-only centers to help
reduce transmission to others.
Rapidly Expand Health Care Workforce
A physician who has to self-quarantine can be Expanding Hospital Capacity
recruited to provide care virtually, or oversee care Community resources like hotels, convention centers
delivered by other clinicians through interactive video/ and surgery centers can be converted for hospital care.
audio conferencing. And Medicare will pay for
providers who are licensed in one state to provide Patients Over Paperwork
care in a different state if they are needed. Health Administrative burdens have been reduced dramatically
systems can provide care options that use population and permit frontline providers to triage patients and
management strategies like triaging based on COVID coordinate care despite high volume and extraordinary
status as well as clinical status, employing doctors, system stresses. By extending quality reporting deadlines
nurses and other staff to better manage high patient and suspending medical necessity documentation, we
volumes. Clinicians who are not fully employed during are giving time back to doctors so they can focus on
the emergency can be repurposed to provide care in their patients. For example, provider documentation
other areas. requirements for prior authorization are temporarily
suspended. Additionally, we’ve made regulatory
changes to provide temporary relief from many audit
Testing Patients Where They Are and quality reporting requirements so that providers,
If a person has a physician order for a lab test for healthcare facilities, Medicare Advantage health plans,
COVID-19, they can go to a drive-up testing center. Part D prescription drug plans, and states can focus
Or, a laboratory may be able to send someone to on providing needed care to Medicare and Medicaid
their home to collect a test sample. beneficiaries affected by COVID-19.
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