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HHS has revised the Post-Payment Notice of Reporting Requirements - PDF as of today, June 11, 2021.

 ** Please note, the link to the PDF document has been intermittenly working. You can also click here for additional information. 

This new version supersedes all previous versions of the...

On Thursday, March 18th, the senate confirmed Xavier Becerra as the next secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services. Becerra has held judicial and legislative positions in California, serving as the attorney general of the state and holding congressional office in three different districts. He will be replacing Alex Azar, who held the position from 2018 to 2021.Read more

For providers who received more than $10,000 in total payments from the HHS Provider Relief Fund (PRF), HHS is requiring those providers to submit at least one report, and possibly a second report, showing how the funds were utilized. Initially, HHS had said that the reporting portal would open on January 15th, and that the first report for all providers would be due no later than February 15th. The portal did indeed open on January 15th, but the only thing providers can do at this point is register...

On Thursday, January 7, 2021, former HHS Secretary Alex Azar announced an extension of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). This PHE was initially declared on January 31, 2020 (with acknowledgement that it has existed since January 27th). Any PHE declaration can only last for 90 days at a time, but can be extended or renewed. It has already been renewed multiple time throughout 2020, and the 90 day extension that occurred in October 2020 was set to expire on or around January 21. There...

As we announced last week, HHS has opened up the portal for providers to apply for Phase 3 of the HHS Provider Relief Fund (PRF). Since that initial announcement, HHS has released a few additional details, but there are still some questions that remain unanswered. HHS is hosting a webinar on October 15th  at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time. If you register for the webinar, there is a place where you can enter any question(s) that you would like to have answered during the webinar. We encourage you...

Last year, Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa), introduced H.R. 2771, Protecting HOME Act of 2019, allowing for increased reimbursement rates for durable medical equipment and oxygen equipment and supplies in areas of the country where reimbursement has been slashed up to 50% over the years. This bill is still alive! We need to continue reaching out to our members of Congress asking for support. Click here to see a full list of current...

HHS has released additional details regarding the reporting requirements that recipients of the Provider Relief Fund will be expected to adhere to in order to comply with the Terms and Conditions of receiving the funds. Additional reporting details will be coming by August 17th, which should include a reporting template that providers can use, but here is what we know right now.

Providers who meet any of the following criteria will be required to report on the use of the funds they received:

In April of this year, many providers received HHS Provider Relief Fund payments from CMS (via United Healthcare). These funds were sent or deposited in their accounts automatically, without any request or application required. This automatic payment was considered Round 1 of the $50B General Distribution, and came from an initial $30B pool of funds. Those providers who received those initial automatic payments were then eligible to apply for additional funding from the remaining $20B of the $50B...

The deadline to apply for the HHS Provider Relief Fund for Medicaid/CHIP providers who did not receive any relief payments during the Medicare-based General Distribution has been extended until August 28th. Providers who have been adversely impacted by COVID-19, meet all of the other eligibility requirements, and can agree to the terms and conditions associated with the program are encouraged to apply for this relief fund.

HHS created this $15B Medicaid/CHIP relief program from the Provider...