NASH has urged congressional leaders to adopt a new proposal that would, among other things, provide $75 billion for hospitals to help them respond to the COVID-19 crisis.

In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, and House minority leader Charles Schumer, NASH noted that private safety-net hospitals report that they have already exhausted their share of the $30 billion distributed to hospitals under the CARES Act and that they need additional help to offset the high cost of treating COVID-19 patients and the revenue they have lost because they have suspended non-urgent procedures.

NASH also asked congressional leaders to urge the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to distribute the remaining $70 billion designated for hospitals in the CARES Act as soon as possible.

See NASH’s letter here.