CMS–9912–IFC

This interim final rule with request for comments (IFC) discusses CMS’s implementation of section 3713 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), which established Medicare Part B coverage and payment for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19) vaccine and its administration. This IFC implements requirements in the CARES Act that providers of COVID–19 diagnostic tests make public their cash prices for those tests and establishes an enforcement scheme to enforce those requirements. This rule also establishes an add-on payment for cases involving the use of new COVID–19 treatments under the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS).