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CMS Releases Compliance Letter for Non-Federal Governmental Health Plans on COVID-19
On June 5, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its Compliance Letter for Non-Federal Governmental Health Plans related to COVID-19. The letter highlights COVID-19 guidance relevant to non-Federal governmental plan sponsors including: 1) a requirement to cover COVID-19 diagnostic testing and certain related Items and services without cost-sharing or medical management; 2) temporary period of relaxed enforcement of certain timeframes related to group market requirements under the Public Health Service Act; and 3) expanding and promoting access to telehealth options and prescription drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The letter is available here.