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On Monday, June 29, HHS Spokesperson Michael Caputo tweeted “…@HHSGov expects to renew the Public Health Emergency due to COVID-19 before it expires. We have already renewed this PHE once…” The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (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. The COVID-19 was already renewed once in...

HHS has announced an additional $15B in relief fund distributions from the Provider Relief Fund, which will be made available to eligible providers that participate in state Medicaid and CHIP programs. Providers who have previously received a payment from the Provider Relief Fund General Allocation will not be eligible for this next round of funding. To be eligible for this funding, health care providers...

Healthcare providers who received HHS relief payment initially had 30 days to sign an attestation form which signaled they were agreeing to the Terms and Conditions and were keeping the payment they received. That 30 day window to sign the attestation form was later extended to 45 days, and on May 22 HHS extended that window even further, now allowing providers 90 days from the date they received a payment to accept HHS Terms and Conditions or return the funds.

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