Provider Relief Funds

Broad guidance kept some nursing homes from using as much Provider Relief funding as intended … Sudden nursing home closure leaves staff without pay, residents hastily relocating … High-dose flu vax...

Provider Relief officially ends with clawback of an estimated $10 billion in remaining funds … House bill would make permanent telehealth exceptions launched during pandemic … Archdiocese of New Orleans...

Database signals possible COVID vaccination stroke risk in seniors … Skilled nursing beds blew past $100K in fourth quarter of 2022 … Consumer Voice to CMS: Add resident acuity scale to any staffing...

On June 23, skilled nursing providers in Rhode Island cheered as the just-passed state budget promised them $30 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds.

Provider Relief Fund audits have started in earnest, with the threat of federal investigators demanding more and different data than most skilled nursing providers have ever been asked to account for.

Nearly $2 billion in Provider Relief Funds being released … Thousands of healthcare workers have not received required booster shot … 20% of Medicare patients use medical marijuana with most saying...

The federal government is delivering $560 million in Provider Relief Funds to COVID-impacted healthcare providers starting this week. 

Skilled nursing facilities that have received payments through the Provider Relief Fund would have until the end of the COVID-19 pandemic to report how they used the emergency aid under a new proposal. 

Nursing homes once again have access to the federal Provider Relief Fund portal for Period 1.

Extended Provider Relief Fund reporting window closes tomorrow, Nov. 30 … Three more states join legal challenge of vaccine mandate for healthcare workers; 14 states now involved … Legislation would...