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B-332097 1 (2020-04-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebcy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 B-332097 April 22, 2020 The Honorable Chuck Grassley Chairman The Honorable Ron Wyden Ranking Member Committee on Finance United States Senate The Honorable Frank Pallone, Jr. Chairman The Honorable Greg Walden Ranking Member Committee on Energy and Commerce House of Representatives The Honorable Richard Neal Chairman The Honorable Kevin Brady Ranking Member Committee on Ways and Means House of Representatives Subject: Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Pursuant to section 801 (a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code, this is our report on a major rule promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) entitled Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (RIN: 0938-AU31). We received the rule on April 9, 2020. It was published in the Federal Register as an interim final rule with comment period on April 6, 2020. 85 Fed. Reg. 19230. The effective date of the rule is March 31, 2020. The applicability date of the final rule is March 1, 2020. According to CMS, the interim final rule gives individuals and entities that provide services to Medicare beneficiaries the flexibilities to respond to the public health threats posed by the spread of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). CMS stated it is changing Medicare payment rules during the Public Health Emergency (PHE) for the COVID-19 pandemic so that physicians and other practitioners, home health and hospice providers, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, rural health clinics, and federally qualified health centers are allowed broad flexibilities to furnish services using remote communications technology to avoid exposure risks to health care providers, patients, and the community. According to CMS, the interim final rule also alters the applicable payment policies to provide specimen collection fees for independent laboratories

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