COVID-19: CDC, FDA and CMS Guidance
This page includes AHA Today stories and other AHA content on coronavirus COVID-19 guidance from the CDC, FDA, and CMS.
An independent commission will assess the response to COVID-19 and offer recommendations to nursing homes, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved for emergency use a ventilator specially developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to treat COVID-19 patients.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a number of new waivers related to COVID-19. The waivers apply nationwide and are generally retroactive to March 1, 2020.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday released a number of new waivers related to COVID-19.
Statement on additional regulatory waivers from CMS from AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack.
The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for Abbott Laboratory’s SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay for the qualitative detection of COVID-19 antibodies.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced additional regulatory waivers and rule changes to expand diagnostic testing for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, telehealth in Medicare, hospital capacity and the health care workforce during the COVID-19 emergency.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidance for health care providers who care for breastfeeding women and infants who receive breast milk, based on what is currently known about the virus that causes COVID-19 and the transmission of other viral respiratory pathogens.
The Food and Drug Administration has updated and reissued its April 18 emergency use authorization on face masks for the general public to clarify that non-surgical face masks are not intended for use by health care personnel as personal protective equipment, meaning they are not a substitute for…
The Trump administration put forward a series of guidelines for testing and rapid response programs in anticipation of reopening the nation’s economy.