CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency. The purpose of this amendment is to Implement an add-on payment to primary care, behavioral health and dental service providers, increase reimbursement for private non-medical institutions by at least 17.2%, allow nursing facilities to relocate individuals with acquired brain injuries to a quarantine unit when diagnosed with COVID-19, allow facilities to relocate residential care patients to a nursing facility bed or nursing facility patients to a residential care bed due to COVID-19, allow pharmacies to bill for COVID-19 testing, and allow physician assistants, nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists to be considered qualified providers for ordering and recertifying a plan of care for private duty nursing services.
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