CMS announced regulatory changes that require nursing homes to test staff and offer testing to residents for COVID-19. Laboratories and nursing homes using point-of-care testing devices will now be required to report diagnostic test results. The new rules also require hospitals to provide COVID-19 cases and related data to HHS.
This is a welcome intervention that will help save lives and protect valuable hospital capacity this fall and winter. It only applies to skilled nursing facilities that are certified by CMS (because Medicaid or Medicare is a payer for some of the residents). It wont help with Assisted Living centers or homes because those aren’t CMS certified.
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