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Coronavirus Update: CMS Releases Waivers for COVID-19
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday released a substantial number of new waivers related to COVID-19. The waivers apply nationwide and are retroactive to March 1, 2020.
Coronavirus Update: Administration Requests Hospitals Report Daily on COVID-19 Testing Results, Bed and Ventilator
The Vice President, on behalf of President Trump and the White House Coronavirus Task Force, yesterday sent a letter to the nation's hospitals requesting that all hospitals report certain data on COVID-19 testing results, bed and ventilator capacity. In the letter, hospitals were asked to report the following two streams of data on a daily basis:
Coronavirus Update: FEMA Public Assistance Application Information
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is implementing a simplified online Public Assistance program application process for eligible government entities and certain private non-profit organizations. To assist hospitals and health systems better understand the process for applying for PA funding, the AHA worked with Jones Day to produce this advisory with additional details.
Federal Reserve Announces New Main Street Lending Program to Enhance Support for Small- and Mid-sized Businesses
The Federal Reserve today announced the terms of both expanded and new “Main Street” lending facilities that would provide loans to a variety of eligible borrowers, including borrowers that obtain loans through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) administered by the Small Business Administration and larger borrowers with up to 10,000 employees or $2.5 billion in annual revenues.
COVID-19 Website Resources
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A collection of links to websites on the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, including FDA's Emergency Use Authorizations, CDC's resources, testing supplies information, personal protective equipment (PPE) guidelines and lists of approved products.
Federal Reserve announces new lending program to enhance support for small- and mid-sized businesses
The Federal Reserve announced the terms of both expanded and new "Main Street" lending facilities that would provide loans to a variety of eligible borrowers.
FEMA outlines exportation ban on respirators, surgical gloves
The Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a temporary rule to bar the exportation of some personal protective equipment, including some respirators and surgical masks and gloves.
FCC urged not to limit COVID-19 telehealth program to certain providers
AHA urged the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider immediately its decision to limit participation in the COVID-19 Telehealth Program to certain nonprofit or public health care providers, noting that the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act included “no such restriction” on the program’s $200 million in funding.
Administration urged to increase number of doctors in rural, medically underserved areas
A bipartisan group of senators and representatives urged the administration to resume premium processing for physicians seeking employment-based visas to provide rural communities with access to foreign physicians who have just completed their medical training in the U.S.
CDC releases guidance on post-COVID-19 exposure return-to-work, clinical specimen swabs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated guidance for critical infrastructure workers’ return to work following exposure to COVID-19.