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title: COVID-19 Practice Modifications & Temporary Practice Closure
description: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced healthcare providers to consider practice modifications include reducing services and/or operating hours, postponing elective and non-urgent procedures, and temporarily closing the practice.
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# COVID-19 Practice Modifications & Temporary Practice Closure

**Posted/Updated on 4/18/20 4:51 PM**

``The COVID-19 pandemic has forced healthcare providers to consider practice modifications including reducing services and/or operating hours, postponing elective and non-urgent procedures, and temporarily closing the practice.

Some physicians are finding that they do not have the capacity to deliver care by telehealth, or they have confronted other challenges that prohibit their ability to practice at all (e.g., restrictions on performing elective or non-essential procedures), and they have made the decision to temporarily close their practices.

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- **Sample Form:** Notification to Patients of Temporary Service Modifications/Practice Changes
- **Sample Form:** Notice of Temporary Practice Closure | Download Word Template

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