{"id":742,"date":"2020-04-13T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/?p=742"},"modified":"2020-04-14T09:12:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T13:12:22","slug":"cms-allows-for-verbal-consent-by-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/guidelines\/cms-allows-for-verbal-consent-by-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"CMS Allows for \u201cVerbal Consent\u201d by COVID-19 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Several weeks ago, PWW and other industry groups asked CMS for relief from signature rules because of the impracticability of obtaining Assignment of Benefits (AOB) signatures from suspected or actual COVID-19 patients. Now, CMS has officially acknowledged that due to CDC Guidelines, it is improper to ask suspected or known COVID patients to handle styluses, pens and other devices or equipment used to obtain signatures due to the infection risk.<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BREAKING-ALERT-Official-Answer-on-Beneficiary-Signature-Rules.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 600px; \" data-width=\"600\" data-height=\"600\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"both\" data-download=\"on\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"on\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">BREAKING-ALERT-Official-Answer-on-Beneficiary-Signature-Rules<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago, PWW and other industry groups asked CMS for relief from signature rules because of the impracticability of obtaining Assignment of Benefits (AOB) signatures from suspected or actual COVID-19 patients. Now, CMS has officially acknowledged that due to CDC Guidelines, it is improper to ask suspected or known COVID patients to handle styluses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Steve Weigold","author_link":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/author\/sweigold\/"},"featured_img":null,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"twentytwenty-fullscreen":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Steve Weigold","author_link":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/author\/sweigold\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Several weeks ago, PWW and other industry groups asked CMS for relief from signature rules because of the impracticability of obtaining Assignment of Benefits (AOB) signatures from suspected or actual COVID-19 patients. Now, CMS has officially acknowledged that due to CDC Guidelines, it is improper to ask suspected or known COVID patients to handle styluses,&hellip;","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/category\/guidelines\/ems-guidance-and-information\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">EMS Guidance and Information<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/category\/guidelines\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Guidelines<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">EMS Guidance and Information<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Guidelines<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 13, 2020","modified":"Updated on April 14, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 13, 2020 9:10 am","modified":"Updated on April 14, 2020 9:12 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}