The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) is working rapidly to update policies and allow healthcare providers to flexibly apply best practices in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Programs such as Hospitals without Walls and the existing Patients over Paperwork have been deployed. Removal of barriers have resulted in exponential growth of telehealth and remote patient monitoring. Advanced payments to healthcare providers are being provided to counter the effects of changing patterns of healthcare use, reduction in elective procedure, increase in ICU utilization and other ongoing unanticipated changes.
