CMS vaccine policy now enforceable in all 50 states

Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Authorize Health care workers can go official nationwide after a judge thrown out A challenge to authorization came from Texas on Wednesday.

A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas provisionally granted a request from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for employees of Medicare and Medicaid-certifying agencies to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in Texas.

But Texas moved to fired The case came after Tuesday Supreme Court decision Let CMS do its job while appeals are heard in lower courts.

Therefore, the federal government’s request to block proceedings and injunction pending appeals were dismissed as irrelevant.

Supreme Court decision comes after hearing argument Two separate lawsuits filed by 24 states against authorization. Texas raised its own challenge to the Supreme Court’s pending policy, so the court’s decision did not affect Texas suppliers.

CMS Friday push back Compliance Dates for Suppliers in Newly Directed 24 States Following Supreme Court Ruling. CMS officials said at the time that the guidance specifically did not apply to Texas because of the ongoing litigation. CMS did not immediately respond to questions about whether the deadline for Texas suppliers would also change.