I did not know about the exemption for COVID, Thanks for sharing.

My experience with an exemption is not so great. SO in 2017 we were hit by Hurricane Harvey, devastating a large area of the south Texas region My front office girl was using my generator for over 2 weeks to power her home! We were supposed to be automatically exempt due to the Hurricane but.....I was not. My partner at the time was exempted but when I found they were penalizing me in 2019 they would not reverse the decision. I called a Medicare specialist (private party for direction) and was told there was nothing I could do. No appeal process is in place. He suggested I call my local federal representatives and see if they could help. I did not follow through contacting the reps as 2019 was a horrible year for me personally and not wonderful professionally so just took the licks and kept moving.

I hate that the government came up with a program where we are penalized if we don't jump through the hoops and it is so convoluted that we have to HIRE an outside company to keep them happy. Ridiculous how it is all based off of check box responses not actually how patients are doing or outcomes.