Modern Healthcare
By: Rachel Cohrs
HHS on Tuesday announced new grant distributions to Medicaid providers, safety net hospitals, and hospitals in COVID-19 hot spots. The agency in recent days faced pressure from a bipartisan group of lawmakers to send more of Congress’ $175 billion provider relief fund to Medicaid-dependent providers. HHS said that $15 billion will be sent to Medicaid providers that did not already receive a grant from the department’s initial $50 billion general grant distribution, which was open to providers that billed Medicare fee-for-service in 2019. Georgetown University research professor Edwin Park said it’s possible that providers that received a de minimis amount of aid under prior distributions could be excluded.
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