Posted on 10/09/2020 1:06:09 AM PDT by Libloather
The Department of Health and Human Services is threatening to withhold U.S. funding from hospitals that fail to comply with federal requirements on reporting data about Covid-19 and influenza patients, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma announced Tuesday.
Verma said on a conference call with reporters that hospitals will be given 14 weeks to comply with the requirements before enforcement is implemented. She said federal officials will work with hospitals over that time to help bring them into compliance.
“Because this requirement is in the Medicare conditions of participation, noncompliance could result in termination from both Medicare and Medicaid, meaning the hospital would not receive reimbursement from these programs,” Verma said. “We’re going to do everything that we can to facilitate reporting.”
The withholding of Medicare and Medicaid funding would be a major blow to almost any hospital. But Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator, emphasized that the data is “really critical” to guide the U.S. response to the pandemic.
Among the data requested from hospitals is the number of Covid-19 patients in each hospital and availability of medical equipment such as ventilators and protective gowns for employees. Birx announced Tuesday that HHS will now begin requiring new data from hospitals in order to better track seasonal influenza patients across the country.
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Or old age.
Death took another holiday.
Scamtastic!
No problem. Just continue submittimg cancer, auto accidents, and drownings as Covid deaths.
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