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HHS pushes back CARES reporting timeline, updates guidance HHS is encouraging all relief fund recipients who have received aggregate payments exceeding $10,000 to establish a reporting account.
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A month before the reporting deadline, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it would be pushing back the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund (PRF) reporting timeline now that the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021 has been passed. HHS has been working on updated reporting requirements that comply with this legislation.
HHS has also provided updated reporting guidance, allowing recipients to define lost revenue as one of three options. In the first, the difference between 2019 and 2020 actual patient care revenue, providers must submit 2019 Revenue from Patient Care Payer Mix by quarter as outlined in the guidance.
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Healthcare providers that received Provider Relief Funds (“Funds”) from the Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) have anticipated an initial February 15, 2021 deadline for reporting on the use of Funds. However, today HHS issued a release stating that “PRF recipients will now be required to submit their reporting requirements on their use of these funds later than previously announced.” HHS explained that the change was due to the late December passage of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, which added another $3 billion in funding and included language specific to reporting requirements. In order to ensure reporting is consistent with the December law, HHS is taking the additional time to roll out the full reporting process.