On April 9th the CMS announced a further expansion of the healthcare workforce flexibilities it had previously announced on March 30 in order to boost frontline medical staffs to fight to save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. The additional flexibilities include:
Doctors directly caring for patients at rural hospitals via phone, radio, online communications, even across state lines.
Nurse practitioners performing some medical exams on skilled nursing facility patients, whether COVID-19 related or not.
Occupational therapists from home health agencies performing initial assessments on certain homebound patients.
Hospice nurses being relieved of hospice aide in-service training tasks.
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