NASH Recommends Targets for Next CARES Act Grants
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 [...]
Coronavirus Update for May 5, 2020
Coronavirus update for Tuesday, May 5 as of 3:00 p.m. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS has updated its FAQ for state Medicaid and CHIP programs. Among the issues the FAQ addresses are emergency preparedness and response, eligibility and enrollment flexibilities, benefit [...]
Coronavirus Update for May 4, 2020
Coronavirus update for Monday, May 4 as of 2:30 p.m. Department of Health and Human Services Last Friday HHS began processing $22 billion in payments from the CARES Act’s provider relief fund to hospitals with large numbers of COVID-19 admissions [...]
Coronavirus Update for May 1, 2020
Coronavirus update for Friday, May 1 as of 4:00 p.m. Follow-Up to Thursday’s Interim Final Rule Release On Thursday CMS released a second interim final rule with comment period announcing a new round of regulatory waivers and rule changes to [...]
Coronavirus Update for April 30, 2020
Coronavirus update for Thursday, April 30 as of 4:00 p.m. Major New Regulation From CMS CMS this afternoon published a 279-page interim final rule with comment period covering Medicare and Medicaid, the Basic Health Program, and additional policy and regulatory [...]
Coronavirus Update for April 29, 2020
Coronavirus update for Wednesday, April 29 as of 3:30 p.m. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS has posted a letter to clinicians participating in its Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) explaining how participating in a clinical trial and reporting [...]
NASH Asks Administration to Modify Approach to Emergency Hospital Funding
The manner in which the federal government is distributing COVID-19-related CARES Act funding is unfair to private safety-net hospitals, the National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has written in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Centers [...]
Coronavirus Update for April 28, 2020
Coronavirus update for Tuesday, April 28 as of 4:00 p.m. NASH Advocacy NASH has written to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma to express concern about how CMS distributed [...]
Coronavirus Update for April 27, 2020
Coronavirus update for Monday, April 27 as of 3:30 p.m. Department of Health and Human Services Last Friday HHS deposited its second tranche of CARES Act funding in hospitals’ bank accounts. We have contacted HHS to inquire about the specifics [...]
Coronavirus Update for April 24, 2020
Coronavirus update for Friday, April 24 as of 4:00 p.m. Attention: Health Care Providers HHS has extended until 3:00 p.m. (eastern) on Saturday, April 25 the deadline for providers to submit data that will be used to determine how it [...]
