Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
The American Medical Association released for immediate use Current Procedural Terminology codes for reporting on medical claims two laboratory tests (87636 and 87637) that simultaneously detect the COVID-19 virus, influenza A/B and respiratory syncytial virus.
The National Institutes of Health鈥檚 Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics initiative awarded $98.4 million in contracts to scale up and manufacture new COVID-19 testing technologies.
The Food and Drug Administration released guidance and a briefing document outlining the key data needed to support an emergency use authorization for a COVID-19 vaccine candidate and further explaining the EUA process.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today released guidance on how it will implement an Aug. 25 interim final rule that makes collecting and reporting COVID-19 data a condition of participation (CoP) for hospitals that participate in Medicare.
AHA statement on interpretive guidance on CMS data collection and Medicare conditions of participation interim final rule from President and CEO Rick Pollack.
Please contact your Republican senators today and ask them sign on to a 鈥淒ear Colleague鈥 letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) expressing concerns that a Sept. 19 change in HHS鈥 COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund (PRF) reporting requirements will create uncertainty and financial鈥
Please contact your Republican senators today and ask them sign on to a 鈥淒ear Colleague鈥 letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) expressing concerns that a Sept. 19 change in HHS鈥 COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund (PRF) reporting requirements will create uncertainty and financial鈥
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance on how COVID-19 spreads to acknowledge published reports showing 鈥渓imited, uncommon鈥 circumstances where people with COVID-19 infected others who were more than 6 feet away.
CMS releases guidance on COVID-19 data reporting as a condition of hospitals鈥 Medicare participation
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released guidance on how it will implement its August interim final rule that makes collecting and reporting COVID-19 data a condition of participation for hospitals that participate in Medicare.
COVID-19 cases in Arizona fell 75% between July 13 and Aug. 7 after sustained community mitigation measures that promoted social distancing, required or encouraged mask wearing, limited large gatherings, and paused business operations where mask use and social distancing were difficult to maintain鈥