{"id":373,"date":"2020-04-08T17:57:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T21:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=373"},"modified":"2020-04-08T17:57:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T21:57:45","slug":"cms-announces-new-rules-and-waivers-of-federal-requirements-for-hospitals-and-clinicians-responding-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/08\/cms-announces-new-rules-and-waivers-of-federal-requirements-for-hospitals-and-clinicians-responding-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"CMS Announces New Rules and Waivers of Federal Requirements for Hospitals and Clinicians Responding to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals without walls, the USNS Comfort and FaceTime calls between patients and doctors are just some of the new and much-needed initiatives to fight the COVID-19 pandemic that are now possible because the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is relaxing laws and regulations.<\/p>\n<p>On March 30, 2020, CMS, in coordination with the Trump administration, announced the implementation of a sweeping array of new rules and\u00a0<a title=\"Coronavirus Waivers &amp; Flexibilities\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/about-cms\/emergency-preparedness-response-operations\/current-emergencies\/coronavirus-waivers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">waivers<\/a>\u00a0of federal requirements for hospitals and health systems to effectively manage potential surges of COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris Alert, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/cms_announces_new_rules_waivers_federal_requirements_hospitals_clinicians_covid19_0420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals without walls, the USNS Comfort and FaceTime calls between patients and doctors are just some of the new and much-needed initiatives to fight the COVID-19 pandemic that are now possible because the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is relaxing laws and regulations. On March 30, 2020, CMS, in coordination with the Trump &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/08\/cms-announces-new-rules-and-waivers-of-federal-requirements-for-hospitals-and-clinicians-responding-to-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CMS Announces New Rules and Waivers of Federal Requirements for Hospitals and Clinicians Responding to COVID-19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[492,493,23,274,494],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-centers-for-medicare-and-medicaid-services","tag-cms","tag-hospitals","tag-regulations","tag-waivers"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}