New COVID-19 “hotspot” hospitals and private safety-net hospitals serving especially high proportions of Medicaid and government-insured patients should be singled out for grants in the next round of CARES Act funding from the Provider Relief Fund, NASH declared on Wednesday in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma.

NASH also urged administration officials to develop a program to identify and assist hospitals that were overlooked by previous methodologies used to identify recipients of CARES Act grants.

See NASH’s letter here.