July 7, 2020 5:00 pm Health Policy | Practice Reopening North Carolina Issues COVID-19 Reporting Order North Carolina’s health director today issued a temporary order that requires physicians and others ordering or conducting COVID-19 diagnostic tests to report negative tests. Reporting positive tests was already required. In other North Carolina news, the state Department of Health and Human Services today announced that state residents no longer need a physician referral to receive a COVID-19 test, because the state health director has issued a standing order for testing. 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.