Updated April 30, 2020

This quick-start COVID-19 physician guide, curated from comprehensive CDC, JAMA and WHO resources, will help prepare your practice, address patient concerns and answer your most pressing questions.

• Resources for clinics and health care facilities: CDC resources
• Prevent the spread of COVID-19 in your practice or health care facility: Guides from WHO
• Overcome the new and unique operational challenges of COVID-19: AMA advice for practices

• Mental health resources for physicians and other frontline health care staff: Resources from the AMA and the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
• How to minimize exposure and implement standard and transmission-based precautions: Interim infection prevention and control recommendations
• How to manage your supply of personal protective equipment (PPE): CDC Strategies for Optimizing PPE and supply of N95 respirators
• Prioritize urgent and emergency visits to help manage the supply of PPE: CMS recommendations on non-essential procedures

• Who should be tested for COVID-19 and how to get them tested: Evaluating and testing for COVID-19
• Health care professionals should immediately notify their local or state health department in the event of a PUI for COVID-19: Find your state and local health department contacts
• How to manage patients diagnosed with COVID-19: Clinical guidance from the CDC
• Investigational and therapeutic treatment options: Treatment guidelines from NIH and CDC
• Read advice on People at Risk for Serious Illness from COVID-19

• How to assess risk, monitor for symptoms and understand work restriction decisions for health care professionals with potential exposure to COVID-19: Interim U.S. guidance
• Return to work criteria for health care workers: Interim CDC guidance (note that federal guidance may be adapted by state or local health departments to respond to rapidly changing local circumstances.)

• Common myths that you should be ready to debunk: The biggest misconceptions
• Advice to give patients who have suspected or confirmed COVID-19: Top advice from CDC
• Notices to inform travelers and clinicians about current health issues that impact travelers’ health: CDC travel notices

• Medicare providers: CMS Medicare FAQ
• Coverage and benefits related to COVID-19: CMS Medicaid FAQ
• Information related to COVID-19 individual and small group market insurance coverage: COVID-19 fact sheet 
• Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act: Benefits and provisions for physicians and practices

• CMS Medicare Health Care Provider Fact Sheet for telemedicine
• AMA quick guide to telemedicine in practice