Update to COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Blanket Waivers for Specific Providers

Memorandum Summary • CMS continues to review the need for existing emergency blanket waivers issued in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency (PHE). • Over the course of the COVID-19 PHE, skilled nursing facilities/nursing facilities (SNFs/NFs), inpatient hospices, intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IIDs), and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) facilities have developed policies or other practices that we believe mitigates the need for certain waivers. • Applicable waivers will remain in effect for hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAH). • CMS will end the specified waivers in two groups: o 60 days from issuance of this memorandum o 30 days from issuance of this memorandum