NEWS: HHS has extended the deadline for hospitals to submit data that will inform how $10 billion is distributed to areas of high impact from COVID19. The deadline is now 3:00 PM ET on Saturday, April 25.
The deadline for hospitals to submit this information is now 3:00 PM Eastern Time, Saturday, April 25. Hospitals have received emails from HHS regarding how to submit the four necessary pieces of information: their Taxpayer Identification Number, their National Provider Identifier, their number of ICU beds as of April 10, and their number of COVID-19 admissions from January 1 to April 10.
The decision to extend the deadline was made in consultation with hospitals and hospital associations, and the extension will not delay the start of the distribution of these funds to high-impact areas, starting next week. HHS and the entire Trump Administration are working to allocate and distribute the $100 billion appropriated for providers in the CARES Act as quickly as possible to those most in need.
On Wednesday, HHS announced that it would be allocating $10 billion to providers in areas suffering the most impact from COVID-19, alongside $50 billion to providers in general, $10 billion to rural providers, and $400 million to the Indian healthcare system. More details on other targeted groups of hospitals and providers that will receive a share of the remaining funds are forthcoming.as part of the Wednesday announcement of these new allocations: “We’re putting out all these funds as quickly as possible, as transparently as possible, to those who are suffering the most from this situation.
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