Before Thursday's announcement, Medicare enrollees did have options for getting free at-home tests, and those will remain available while the new policy is going into effect. Those options include requesting four free tests for home delivery throughcovidtests.govor picking free tests up from commu...
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COVID-19, Medicare-for-All, and the Uncertain Future of Emergency Medicinedoi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2020.06.034Jesse M. PinesAnnals of Emergency Medicine
at-home tests free of charge,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in the CMS news release. “Since we took office, we have more than tripled the number of sites where people can get COVID-19 tests for free, and we’re also delivering close to 250 million at-home...
A home COVID-19 test kit is held, Feb. 3, 2022, in Seattle. Medicare says that millions of enrollees will finally have access to free over-the-counter COVID-19 tests at drug stores. Monday's announcement comes amid worries that the latest coronavirus variant --- BA.2 --- will spark...
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Early Impacts of COVID-19 on the Utilization of the Medicare Hospice Benefit (SCI911)doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.01.074Michael PlotzkeThomas ChristianJournal of Pain and Symptom Management
Long-term care nursing home residents newly requiring skilled nursing services (eg, for a new COVID-19 diagnosis) could receive Medicare-reimbursed SNF care without transfer to a hospital, staying in the same location and preventing costly hospitalization and potential further COVID-19 transmission....
“As we integrate lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and equip ourselves for future health crises, policymakers should consider whether there are lessons that can be drawn from the ability of Medicare Advantage to meet certain needs of its program populations and applied to the Me...
As part of the Public Health Emergency (PHE) for the COVID-19 pandemic and in an effort to be as expansive as possible within the current authorities to have diagnostic testing available to Medicare beneficiaries who need it, in the interim final rule wi