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CMS Announces Comprehensive Strategy To Enhance Hospital Capacity Amid COVID-19 Surge
Additional information on the Acute Hospital Care at Home program can be found here.  Information on the clarifications related to ambulatory surgical center can be found here and FAQs documents can be found here and here.

CMS COVID-19 Stakeholder Engagement Calls

CMS Provider Engagement Opportunities

COVID-19 Clinical Rounds and Resources- CMS Stakeholder Calls
Information and registration for CMS COVID-19 Stakeholder Engagement Calls for the dates: July 27 to August 14 can be found here.

CMS Releases Data Update

CMS Extends 2019 Occupational Mix Survey

CMS Issues Phase II Visitation Guidance For COVID-19 Negative Patients

CMS COVID-19 FAQs On Medicare FFS Billing

CMS Programs & Payment for Care in Hospital Alternate Care Sites

CMS Releases Additional Waivers For Hospitals And Other Facilities

CMS Releases Additional Waivers For COVID-19

CMS Conference Calls - Lessons from the COVID-19 Front Lines

CMS: Upcoming Requirements For Notification of Confirmed COVID-19 Among Residents and Staff in Nursing Homes

CMS: Re-opening Facilities To Provide Non-Emergent Non-COVID-19 Healthcare-Phase I

CMS: Upcoming Requirements For Notification of Confirmed COVID-19 Among Residents and Staff in Nursing Homes

CMS: Re-opening Facilities To Provide Non-Emergent Non-COVID-19 Healthcare-Phase I

CMS Approves State’s 1135 Waiver

CMS Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in Hospitals, Psychiatric Hospitals, and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs): FAQs, Considerations for Patient Triage, Placement, Limits to Visitation and Availability of 1135 waivers

CMS EMTALA Requirements and Implications Related to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (Revised)

CMS announces expansion of its accelerated and advance payment program for Medicare participating health care providers and suppliers, to ensure they have the resources needed to combat the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

CMS Releases Quality, Safety & Oversight Group (QSO) Memorandum (3/22)

CMS’s blanket waivers for Medicaid and Medicare can be found here.

The latest information from CMS on waivers and other actions taken in response to COVID-19 can be found here.

Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) Requirements and Implications Related to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) can be found here.

Frequently Asked Questions to Ensure Individuals, Issuers and States have Clear Information on Coverage Benefits for COVID-19