COVID-19 Waivers In Effect Until 2/28/2022
Date: 02/24/22
Inpatient Admissions: We will allow notification of admission up to five (5) days post admission date and complete medical necessity reviews when notification is received.
Post-Acute Accommodations for rehab hospitals and Long Term Acute Care hospitals (LTACH):
We will relax our requirements related to facility transfers including:
- We will not require discharging acute care facilities to obtain prior authorization for patient transfers to participating post-acute facilities.
- We will not require sending facilities to provide notification of transfer to participating providers.
- However, we will require receiving facilities to notify the health plan of patient admission. And we will accept notification up to five (5) days post-transfer.
- We will continue to conduct medical necessity review.
Skilled Nursing Facilities: We will allow post admission notification and authorize up to a seven (7) day stay before medical necessity continued stay review.