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CMS Chief Advises Separate Non-COVID-19 Wards At Hospitals To Allow Device-Related Elective Surgeries To Resume

 
• By Sue Darcey

To get on with the business of providing non-coronavirus procedures – including elective surgeries involving replacement joints and other non-emergency care – at US health care facilities, Medicare agency chief Seema Verma is advising hospitals and outpatient facilities to establish non-COVID-19 care (NCC) zones.

Alert pandemic Covid-19. Triage hospital field tent for the first AID, a mobile medical unit for patient infected with Corona Virus. Doctors with protective masks check the patiences at the entrance.
CMS is advising that health care facilities segregate COVID-19 patients from those without the disease seeking elective surgeries

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Seema Verma has recommended that hospitals and other health care facilities establish “Non-COVID-19 Care” (NCC) zones to provide safe places for providers to conduct emergency and elective procedures involving medtech at US health care facilities.

She said the agency recognizes that at this time, many areas have a low, relatively low, or stable incidence of COVID-19 cases, and that it is important to start providing...

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