EXTENSION OF EMERGENCY DECLARATION?

WASHINGTON - The nation’s influential hospital lobbying group wants HHS to extend its public health emergency declaration beyond July 25, in a letter Friday.

“While not all areas of the country are seeing large numbers of COVID-19 patients, every hospital and health system is operating in a COVID-19 environment, requiring continued assistance from the federal government,” the group wrote, also setting criteria that could be used as a guide to lift the declaration.

For providers, the emergency declaration has loosened rules on privacy and telehealth reimbursement the industry long contended was holding back more widespread adoption.

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