(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)Now that President Trump has embraced the coronavirus as a national emergency, his administration is trying to pull all kinds of levers to combat its spread. Florida already received permission to tweak its Medicaid program from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, less than a week after the state submitted its request. (The Health 202 did a two-part series last year on Medicare and telehealth here and here.) https://t.co/DFesnUPMU4 — Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) March 17, 2020You are reading The Health 202, our must-read newsletter on health policy. 4/ — Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) March 17, 2020A tent is erected for screening people with flu-like symptoms in connection with the coronavirus pandemic outside the South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass.

Source: Washington Post March 18, 2020 12:45 UTC