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HRSA reporting portal for Provider Relief Funds remains open
The Health Resources and Services Administration Provider Relief Fund reporting portal remains open for providers to begin reporting to the government that they used federal emergency relief funds for health care-related expenses or lost revenues attributable to COVID-19.
Urge Congress NOT to Use PRF, Medicare to Pay for Infrastructure Package
AHA urges hospital and health system leaders to contact their senators and representatives and urge them not to use unobligated COVID-19 Provider Relief Funds or extend the 2% mandatory sequestration cut to Medicare to help pay for the infrastructure package currently under consideration.
GAO: HHS should provide time frames for distributing COVID-19 PRF money
The Department of Health and Human Services should provide projected time frames for its planned spending of COVID-19 relief funds, including the Provider Relief Fund, to ensure accountability for these funds, the Government Accountability Office said in a report.
AHA to Congress: Don’t Use PRF Funds for Infrastructure, Providers Need Them Now
The AHA tells Senate leaders it strongly opposes proposals to rescind emergency funds from the Provider Relief Fund to offset the costs of an infrastructure proposal.
AHA urges HHS to extend hospitals’ deadline to spend PRF payments
AHA today asked Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to allow providers that received funding prior to June 30, 2020 to use their COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund payments through the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency or, at a minimum, through the end of 2021.
AHA to HHS Re: COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund Spending Deadline
AHA expresses concern with the June 30, 2021 deadline for spending PRF funds received prior to June 30th, 2020.
As Urged by the AHA, HHS to Allow Hospitals More Time to Spend COVID-19 Emergency Relief Funds
As urged by the AHA and other groups, the Department of Health an
HHS Announces Funding for Rural COVID-19 Response
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently announced expanded COVID-19 response efforts in rural communities. Specifically, HRSA will increase the number of vaccines sent to rural communities, expand testing and other COVID-19 prevention services, and work to increase vaccine uptake.
HHS: $4.8B from ARPA to help reimburse providers testing uninsured for COVID-19
The Health Resources and Services Administration will use $4.8 billion from the American Rescue Plan Act to reimburse health care providers for testing uninsured individuals for COVID-19 through its COVID-19 Uninsured Program, the Department of Health and Human Services announced today.
Fact Sheet: Hospital Costs Explained
The mission of each and every hospital in America is to serve the health care needs of the people in its community 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But, hospitals’ work is made more difficult by our fragmented health care system — a system that leaves millions of people unable to afford the health care services they need.