News Report | July 20, 2020
CMS To Provide Support To Nursing Homes—Point Of Care Testing & ‘Hot Spot’ Technical Assistance
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is providing help to nursing homes located in areas with a high number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections in the community. The help includes point-of-care rapid testing devices that are able to process 20 tests per hour plus technical assistance. The week of July 22, the first shipment of over 600 devices shipped; 2,000 nursing homes in hot spots have been prioritized for the first shipments. Eventually, tests will be given to all 15,400 nursing homes nationwide. CMS is now requiring, rather than recommending, that all . . .