September 15, 2020 5:11 pm Health Policy | Patient Management Pennsylvania Bill Seeks Liability Protections for Physicians Treating COVID-19 Patients A bill in the Pennsylvania legislature would protect healthcare providers from liability while treating or providing testing to COVID-19 patients (absent gross negligence, recklessness, or misconduct). The bill would go beyond a civil immunity executive order, signed by Gov. Tom Wolf in May, that protects healthcare practitioners in hospitals and long-term care facilities but not in outpatient settings. To learn more about the bill, including a link for Pennsylvania physicians to contact their state senator to support the bill, click here. News & Knowledge All Curi recommendations are based on current CDC criteria at the time of publication. CDC guidance for SARS-CoV-2 infection may, or may not, be adopted by state and local health departments to respond to rapidly changing local circumstances. Providers should always check with their local health department to see if the CDC’s guidance on any given topic has been modified (particularly if more restrictive) from the CDC’s recommended guidelines. Follow this link https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/healthdirectories/index.html for contact information to your state/local health department. If local recommendations vary from those of the CDC, and you are unsure what recommendations to follow, then it is safer to follow the more restrictive guidelines/recommendations.