Below are some of the key healthcare-related provisions in the legislation, including a detailed breakdown of the provisions related to funding for healthcare providers under the COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund (PRF).
The agency also released payment allowances for the two billing codes, which account for the injection, infusion, and post-administration monitoring of the recently approved COVID-19 antibody drug.
In this podcast, we sat down with Thomas Campanella, Healthcare Executive in Residence at Baldwin Wallace University, to understand how developing a framework to bring together different political perspectives into a common healthcare policy benefits society and all Americans.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced starting January 1, 2021, Medicare will pay $100 to laboratories that complete high throughput COVID-19 diagnostic tests within two calendar days of the specimen being collected. Also effective January 1, 2021, for laboratories that take longer than two days to complete these tests, Medicare will pay $75.
