Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities: CMS Flexibilities To Fight COVID-19

On March 30, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued temporary regulatory waivers and new rules for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities to equip the American health care system with maximum flexibility to respond to the 2019 Novel
Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The goals of these actions are to 1) to ensure that local hospitals and health systems have the capacity to handle a potential surge of COVID-19 consumers through temporary expansion sites (also known as CMS Hospital Without Walls); 2) remove barriers for physicians, nurses, and other clinicians to be readily hired from the community or from other . . .