Coronavirus Update for Monday, November 30

The following is the latest COVID-19 information from the federal government as of 2:30 p.m. on Monday, November 30. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS has expanded its March program “Hospitals Without Walls,” which provided broad regulatory flexibility that permitted hospitals to provide services in locations beyond their existing walls, by establishing a new “Acute Hospital Care At Home program” that expands those regulatory flexibilities so hospitals may treat eligible patients in their homes.  The CMS news release announcing the program expansion explains that the agency believes that … treatment for more than 60 different acute conditions, such as [...]