• 14-day trend lines showing appreciable and sustained drop in new COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and other metrics reflecting decreasing burden of disease;

• Hospitals stepping down from functioning under crisis standards of care.

• Principle 2: Expand Testing Capacity

• At least double current diagnostic testing capacity;

• Prioritize testing for health care workers, essential personnel, and vulnerable populations;

• Create a flexible testing plan accessible to all residents;

• Expand partnerships with institutions of higher education, private-sector labs, and the federal government;

• Ensure that those who test positive are linked to a health care provider.

• Principle 3: Implement Robust Contact Tracing

• Recruit and deploy an army of personnel who will identify and follow-up with contacts;

• Leverage technological data and innovative solutions to increase efficiency;

• Coordinate the approach of local and state health officials, which will have a coordinated county/regional component.

• Principle 4: Secure Safe Places and Resources for Isolation and Quarantine

• To the greatest extent possible, provide individuals who do test positive in the future with a safe and free place to isolate and protect others from COVID-19;

• Ensure that quarantined contacts are provided supportive services, if needed.

• Principle 5: Execute a Responsible Economic Restart

• Create the Governor's Restart and Recovery Commission to advise on the process and recommend responsible and equitable decisions;

• Plan for a methodical and strategic return to work based on level of disease transmission risk and essential classification;

• Continuation of social distancing measures, requirements for face coverings, and work-from-home directions where feasible and appropriate;

• Leverage any available federal funds and programs to support health care, individual, and small business recoveries.

• Principle 6: Ensure New Jersey's Resiliency

• Learn from the lessons of COVID-19 and prepare for the possibility of resurgence;

• Ensure hospitals, health care systems, and other health delivery facilities have inventories of personal protective equipment and ventilators;

• Build our own state personal protective equipment and ventilator stockpile;

• Create a playbook for future administrations for the next pandemic.

• Princeton University Immediate Past President Shirley Tilghman
• Merck CEO Ken Frazier

• Former Campbell’s CEO Denise Morrison
• Spartina Productions Vice President Evelyn McGee Colbert
• InCharged, VendX and Lux-UVC CEO Jessica Gonzalez
• Apple Vice President of Environmental, Policy and Social Initiatives Lisa Jackson
• Former U.S. Homeland Security Security Jeh Johnson
• Prudential Financial Chairman and CEO Charles Lowrey
• Center for American Progress President and CEO Neera Tanden
• Former U.S. Department of Labor Chief Economist William Rodgers
• Rev. Regena Thomas of the American Federation of Teachers
• Incoming Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway
• Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke
• AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
• Former Acting Director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Richard Besser
• Windels Marx Partner and board chair of Amtrak and Suez North America Tony Coscia

• Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver
• Chief Counsel to the governor Matt Platkin
• Chief of Staff for the governor George Helmy
• Chief Policy Advisory for the governor Kathleen Frangione
• State Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli

• Health care workers, including staff working in health care facilities and in community-based services including home health and behavioral health; 
• Law enforcement personnel, fire and emergency services personnel, and correctional facility staff; 
• Individuals employed at emergency child care centers operating on or after April 1, 2020; 
• Staff working for entities that provide essential social services, including, but not limited to, group home and shelter staff; 
• Essential government employees who are unable to work from home, including child protection services workers, child welfare workers, foster care workers, unemployment compensation processing staff, and public health employees; and,
• Certain critical workers, as defined by the Commissioner of DCF, at essential retail businesses, as defined in Executive Order No. 107 (2020) and subsequent Administrative Orders, which includes, for example, grocery store and gas station employees.

• If you meet the definition of an essential employee and have child care needs, register here. 
• You will be contacted by one of the state’s Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) Agencies within two business days. Your CCR&R will follow up on next steps to gather information about your household and help you identify a participating child care provider.  
• If your child is currently enrolled in a center that is now serving as an emergency child care center, you can continue to utilize its services while your application is pending. 
• If you are income-eligible for the state Child Care Subsidy Program, the CRR&R will use the information you provide to establish that you are an essential employee and help enroll you in the Child Care Subsidy program, which will provide a child care subsidy that will be considered payment in full.
• For all other families, the CCR&R will use the information you provide to establish that you are an essential employee, enroll you in Emergency Child Care Assistance, and to ensure that the center is paid the state portion for May.

• Limitations on practitioner type are waived. For the duration of the COVID-19 PHE, CMS will waive restrictions on which provider type can bill for telehealth services. Now, other practitioners besides physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants can bill for telehealth. This includes physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech language pathologists.
• Audio-only telehealth list is expanded. CMS will allow a variety of therapy-related E/M codes to be billed as telehealth services with an audio-only connection, i.e. over the phone, without requiring real-time video. This includes psychotherapy services, medical nutrition counseling, diabetes self-management training, tobacco use cessation counseling, and more. The full list can be found on the CMS telehealth-eligible code list, which was just updated again on April 30.
• Payments increased for audio-only services. In addition to allowing many behavioral health and patient education and counseling services to be billed using only audio communication, CMS is bumping up the payment for these services from the current range of $14-$41 to a range of $46-$110, bringing them in line with payments for similar office/outpatient visits. This payment change will be retroactive back to March 1, 2020.
• Hospitals may bill as the originating site for telehealth, even when the patient is located at home. This will be allowed for telehealth services furnished by hospital-based practitioners to Medicare patients who are registered as hospital outpatients.

• Physician order no longer required for testing. Medicare patients no longer need a written practitioner’s order to receive a COVID-19 test or certain laboratory tests required to diagnose COVID-19.
• Pharmacists can collect specimens and bill Medicare. Pharmacists can work with a physician or other practitioner credentialed to bill Medicare to provide assessment and specimen collection services relating to COVID-19 diagnosis, and the physician or other practitioner can bill Medicare. Pharmacists may now perform COVID-19 tests if they are currently enrolled with Medicare as a laboratory, provided this is allowed under their state scope-of-practice laws. This allows Medicare patients to be tests at parking lot test sites that are often operated by pharmacies.
• CMS will now cover serology tests. To help determine whether a patient has developed an immune response to COVID-19 and may therefore no longer be at immediate risk of infection, CMS will cover serology tests that look for antibodies to the virus. This includes processing patient-collected samples from home as part of FDA-authorized COVID-19 serology tests.

• Non-physician practitioners may provide home health services. In keeping with provisions in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and physician assistants may now provide home health services. This means these providers may order home health services, create and review plans of care for home health patients, and both certify and re-certify homebound status to determine whether patients continue to be eligible for home health services.
• PT/OT assistants can perform outpatient maintenance therapy. CMS will allow physical and occupational therapists to delegate maintenance therapy services to physical and occupational therapy assistants working in outpatient settings. The move is intended to free up PT/OT providers so they can perform other services and improve patient access to care.

• Services performed in temporary expansion locations will be paid for. Outpatient hospital services including provider-administered drugs, behavioral health services, and wound care that are delivered in temporary expansion locations will be paid. Such locations could be parking lot tents, converted hotels, or even patients’ homes if they are temporarily designated as part of a hospital.
• OPPS payments will apply to off-campus locations. CMS will allow provider-based hospital outpatient departments that relocate off the hospital campus to apply for a temporary exception in order to continue receiving payment under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rather than under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. Hospitals may relocate outpatient departments to more than one off-campus location or partially re-locate off-campus while continuing to deliver care at the original on-campus sites.

• Current AROC 2020 Attendees (that have already registered): Your registration is valid and will be honored in September - no further action is needed.

• Current Exhibitor and Sponsors: The dates for the Exhibit Hall Expo are September 9th - 10th. All Booth registrations and location assignments will remain the same