re: Supreme Court Blocks Biden's Vaccine Mandate

This is the list of facilities the healthcare vaccine mandate applies to, if they see Medicare/Medicaid patients. It’s pretty much everyone except doctors’ offices.

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CMS's vaccine mandate will affect staff at only certain enumerated Medicare and Medicaid-certified healthcare providers and suppliers:

ambulatory surgical centers
hospices
psychiatric residential treatment facilities
programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly
hospitals (acute care hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, long term care hospitals, children's hospitals, hospital swing beds, transplant centers, cancer hospitals, and rehabilitation hospitals)
long term care facilities, including skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities
intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities
home health agencies
comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities critical access hospitals
clinics, rehabilitation agencies, and public health agencies as providers of outpatient physical therapy and speech-language pathology services community mental health centers
home infusion therapy suppliers
rural health clinics/federally qualified health centers end-stage renal disease facilities

CMS's vaccine mandate does not apply to staff of physicians' offices. CMS states that physicians' offices are not subject to Medicare's health and safety regulations; however, they may face state vaccine regulations or other federal vaccine mandates such as those issued by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

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So presumably any of those places could choose not to accept Medicare/Medicaid patients anymore but that is such a large portion of the population, it would cause major problems. Also wouldn’t work for any hospitals with ERs since they have to treat everyone that shows up and then wouldn’t be able to bill medicare/Medicaid for those patients that have it.