Families First Coronavirus Response Act

States Seek Certainty on End of PHE

The country’s states want a clearer idea of when the official COVID-19 public health emergency will end – and along with it, the continuous Medicaid eligibility that remains a major component of the federal attempt to ensure health care coverage for millions of Americans during the pandemic. Even though two administrations have now regularly renewed the PHE for three-month periods and the current administration has promised governors 60 days’ notice of when the PHE will end, the nation’s Medicaid directors have written to congressional leaders asking for Congress to “…provide states with certainty around the end of the Medicaid continuous [...]

iqtsupport2022-11-30T06:00:58-05:00November 30, 2022|COVID-19, Medicaid|

Coronavirus Update for Thursday, August 27

The following is the latest COVID-19 information from the federal government as of 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 27. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS has provided new guidance on completing Medicare reports: specifically, how providers should report Provider Relief Fund payments, uninsured charges reimbursed through the uninsured program administered by HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration, and Small Business Administration loan forgiveness amounts. The new information can be found in CMS’s updated COVID-19 FAQ on Medicare fee-for-service billing, in questions 2 through 8 on pages 99-102. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act waives cost-sharing under Medicare Part B [...]

iqtsupport2020-08-28T06:00:39-04:00August 28, 2020|Coronavirus, COVID-19|

Health Care Workers Inadequately Protected by March Legislation

Many health care workers sickened by COVID-19 are not receiving the paid sick leave anticipated by a federal law passed in March, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of the Inspector General. Under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, new protections were to be established to ensure that health care workers and others had access to additional paid sick leave for COVID-19-related illnesses. According to the OIG, however, the Labor Department’s stated exemptions to the March law are overly broad, leaving as many as nine million health care workers without the paid sick leave [...]

iqtsupport2020-08-14T06:00:58-04:00August 14, 2020|Congress, Coronavirus, COVID-19|