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Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Briggs Healthcare is providing a free COVID-19 Preparedness Checklist – Nursing Homes and Other Long-Term/Senior Living Settings to help LTC and AL facilities prepare for COVID-19.  We’ve enhanced the CDC-provided checklist to allow for notes, dates, signatures, etc. I encourage you to access, download and…… Continue reading COVID-19 Preparedness Checklist

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On March 17, 2020, CMS announced that it has “broadened access to Medicare telehealth services so that beneficiaries can receive a wider range of services from their doctors without having to travel to a healthcare facility. These policy changes build on the regulatory flexibilities granted…… Continue reading CMS Announces Expansion of Medicare Telehealth Coverage

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare I’m hoping that you’ve taken the time to review my blogs this past Saturday: Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of COVID-19 in Nursing Homes REVISED Again and COVID-19 Emergency Declaration – Health Providers Fact Sheet: Waivers The NH guidance memorandum changed everything in terms…… Continue reading CMS Waivers in Response to COVID-19 Situation

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare If you watched the White House COVID-19 Task Force briefing the afternoon of Monday, March 16, 2020, you saw several of the Task Force members with papers in their hands as well as a page shown while speaking and a large poster behind the group…… Continue reading 15 Days to Slow the Spread

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Late evening on Friday, March 13, 2020, CMS issued COVID-19 Emergency Declaration – Health Care Providers Fact Sheet which includes waiver information: Skilled Nursing Facilities 3-day prior hospitalization Renewal of SNF coverage for certain beneficiaries who recently exhausted SNF benefits Critical Access Hospitals Limit of…… Continue reading COVID-19 Emergency Declaration – Health Providers Fact Sheet: Waivers

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Today, March 13, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted a Fact Sheet to aid Medicare providers with information relating to the pricing of both the CDC and non-CDC tests. Medicare’s initial payment for the test will be about $36 and non-CDC…… Continue reading Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) COVID-19 Test Pricing Announced

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On Thursday, March 12, 2020, CMS published the initial COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for State Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Agencies.  This 11-page FAQ are part of the ongoing White House Task Force efforts. CMS developed a Disaster Response Toolkit that is…… Continue reading COVID-19 FAQ Document for State Medicaid and CHIP Agencies