{"id":"SEC-02-037","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Pennsylvania","state":"PA","metro":"","industry":"02","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, M.D.","authority":"Disease Prevention and Control Law, 35 P.S. 521.5; Administrative Code sec. 2102(a), 71 P.S. 532(a)","instrument":"Order of the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health Requiring Reduction of Elective Procedures in Regions with Low Acute Care Treatment Capacity","title":"Regional Reduction of Elective Procedures","dateIssued":"2020-11-23","effective":"2020-11-30 00:01","end":"with the disaster emergency (June 10, 2021) or earlier rescission","startDate":"2020-11-30","endDate":"2021-06-10","quarters":["2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["HC","CAP"],"addressees":["acute care hospitals in Regions meeting two or more metrics (staffing shortage; 50 percent COVID admission increase; medical/surgical bed availability)"],"clause":"Section 2: Rapid Reduction of Elective Procedures. A. Upon notice from the Department (Reduction Notice), an Acute Care Hospital located in a Region that has been determined by the Department to meet two (2) or more of the metrics under Subsection B shall reduce by fifty percent (50%) elective procedures that are scheduled to be performed at the Acute Care Hospital in the seven (7) days following the effective date of the Reduction Notice... D. A Reduction Notice shall be in effect for seven (7) days from its effective date... Section 3: Effective Date. A. This Order is effective at 12:01 a.m. on November 30, 2020","enforcement":"35 P.S. 521.20 (summary offense)","functions":["PR (hospital-based procedures of practice physicians; referral flow)","CB"],"notes":"Counterparty order for every practice whose physicians scheduled hospital procedures in the East Central, Southwest, Keystone, North Central and other Regions receiving Reduction Notices in Dec. 2020-Jan. 2021.","sourceUrl":"https://www.governor.pa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201123-Order-of-the-Secretary-Regional-Reduction-of-Elective-Procedures-Signed.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20201126011846/https://www.governor.pa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201123-Order-of-the-Secretary-Regional-Reduction-of-Elective-Procedures-Signed.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":207555,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-02","url":"/library/SEC-02-037","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-02-037","citation":"Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, M.D, Order of the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health Requiring Reduction of Elective Procedures in Regions with Low Acute Care Treatment Capacity (Nov. 23, 2020) (Ex. SEC-02-037)","stateName":"Pennsylvania","related":[]}