{"id":"FED-090","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States (Medicare and Medicaid providers)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Centers for Medicare \u0026 Medicaid Services, HHS","authority":"Social Security Act §§ 1102, 1135, 1871; CARES Act","instrument":"CMS-1744-IFC, Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (interim final rule with comment period)","title":"Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, 85 Fed. Reg. 19230 (Apr. 6, 2020)","dateIssued":"2020-03-30","effective":"2020-03-31 (\u0027These regulations are effective on March 31, 2020\u0027); applicable from March 1, 2020","end":"for the duration of the PHE (many provisions finalized or ended with the PHE, May 11, 2023)","startDate":"2020-03-31","endDate":"2023-05-11","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["HC","OTHER"],"addressees":["hospitals, physicians, home health agencies, hospices, SNFs, laboratories, Medicare Advantage plans, Medicaid programs"],"clause":"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","functions":["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"],"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.","sourceUrl":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-04-06/pdf/2020-06990.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":513477,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"FED-A","url":"/library/FED-090","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/FED-090","citation":"Centers for Medicare \u0026 Medicaid Services, HHS, CMS-1744-IFC, Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (interim final rule with comment period) (Mar. 30, 2020) (Ex. FED-090)","stateName":"","related":["FED-001","FED-158","FED-159","FED-160","FED-091"]}