Since we first explained the CMS vaccine mandate (the Interim Final Rule (IFR) from the Centers from Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that requires COVID-19 vaccinations for all staff at covered ...

In November 2021, CMS announced a vaccine mandate requiring facilities that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding to ensure staff are vaccinated against COVID-19, save for medical or religious ...

UPDATE: June 1, 2023: The CMS on Wednesday issued a final rule lifting the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for workers in healthcare facilities that receive federal funding as soon as early August.

A vaccine mandate just means that if you don ... But the Supreme Court did allow a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate to go into effect. It requires health care workers ...

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Oversight of the COVID-19 vaccination mandate covering healthcare facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid will no longer be part of all CMS surveys. The agency, in a memo sent to state ...

The Delta variant remained prevalent in November 2021 when CMS issued the vaccine mandate but was on the way to being supplanted by the far more transmissible Omicron and its subvariants. By December, ...

T he Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a final rule lifting the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for workers at healthcare entities that accept federal funding, a decision set to go ...