- Title
- Survey and Certification Issues Related to Hurricane Katrina
- Memo #
- 05-43
- Posting Date
- 09/02/2005
- Fiscal Year
- 2005
- Summary
- Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has invoked time-limited statutory authority under section 1135(b) of the Social Security Act to permit CMS (and its agents) to waive or modify certain requirements, or modify certain deadlines and timetables for the performance of required activities, but only to the extent necessary to ensure that sufficient health care items and services are available to meet the needs of individuals enrolled in the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP programs, and to ensure that health care providers that furnish such items and services in good faith, but are unable to comply with one or more of these requirements, may be reimbursed and exempted from sanctions that might otherwise apply, absent any determination of fraud or abuse.
