Medicare to Waive More Testing, Telehealth, Hospital Requirements (1)

Medicare beneficiaries can get tested for the Covid-19 when told to do so by any health-care professional, under changes announced Thursday.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it is temporarily waiving more regulations to give health-care providers and hospitals greater flexibility in how they respond to the pandemic.

“Testing is vital, and CMS’s changes will make getting tested easier and more accessible for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma said in a statement.

Some of the changes were mandated by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law ...