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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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American Health Care Association
March 3, 2020 Webinar and Presentation. Email [email protected] for additional questions.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
CMS Announces Actions Address Spread of Coronavirus by calling on all health care providers to activate infection control practices and issues guidance to inspectors as they inspect facilities affected by Coronavirus.
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Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University is tracking the COVID-19 spread in real-time in an interactive dashboard with data available for download.
Information from your local health department
Rhode Island
RI EOHHS has promulgated several emergency amendments to the RI Medicaid regulations to ensure that during the COVID-19 emergency, Medicaid members continue to receive medically necessary, Medicaid-covered services while minimizing exposure to the virus. These amendments will be in effect temporarily. The amendments include:
- Delay post eligibility verification
- Delay adverse actions on our members eligibility if someone experiences a change in eligibility
- Extend the time for 12-month reviews of person-centered plans
- Extend level of care authorizations
- Modify level of care determination assessment procedures
- Limit NEMT to only those appointments that are critical to the member’s health, if needed given staffing shortages
View the EOHHS State regulations. The specific regulations temporarily amended are:
- https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/210-50-00-4
- https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/210-50-00-1
- https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/210-40-15-1
- https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/210-40-10-1
- https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/210-40-05-1
- https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/210-40-00-2
- https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/210-30-05-3
- https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/210-30-00-3
- https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/210-20-00-3
- https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/210-20-00-2
- https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/210-20-00-1
- https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/210-10-05-2
- https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/210-30-05-2