tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2021 Issue Q3

COVID-19 Vaccinations: Feds Make COVID Vaccine Mandates Part of CoPs

CMS plans to issue finalized guidance in October. As COVID cases trend ever upward, the feds try to reset the playing field with another vaccination mandate. Read on for details. Refresher: Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a staff vaccination requirement for more than 15,000 Medicare and Medicaid-participating nursing homes, citing statistics that showed higher staff vaccination rates correlate to fewer residents contracting the virus. The Aug. 18 nursing home mandate followed a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) vaccination requirement for all HHS healthcare workers and auxiliary agencies’ health workforce, noted...

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