The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States (Medicare and Medicaid providers)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- Social Security Act §§ 1102, 1135, 1871; CARES Act
- Issued
- 2020-03-30 Mar. 30, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-31 ('These regulations are effective on March 31, 2020'); applicable from March 1, 2020 (read as 2020-03-31)
- End
- for the duration of the PHE (many provisions finalized or ended with the PHE, May 11, 2023) (read as 2023-05-11)
- In force
- Mar. 31, 2020 to May 11, 2023
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersOther
- Addressees
- hospitals, physicians, home health agencies, hospices, SNFs, laboratories, Medicare Advantage plans, Medicaid programs
- Functions reached
- TM telehealth under waivers (physician practices, behavioral health)
- HC/SN home health (homebound clarification; telecommunications technology on the plan of care)
- OF billing and administration of every Medicare provider
- CB patients and payers
- Collection
- Federal health, safety and transport layer FED-A
Operative words
Effective date: These regulations are effective on March 31, 2020. Applicability date: These regulations are applicable beginning on March 1, 2020.
Enforcement
Binding regulations (42 C.F.R. as amended); claims and survey enforcement
Notes
The first omnibus CMS rule of the emergency: it rewired how physician practices, hospitals, home health agencies and hospices were permitted and paid to operate (telehealth expansion, homebound status of quarantined patients, hospital-without-walls flexibilities). Pleaded as the federal rule that changed the manner of operation of health care functions from March 2020.