AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 7: OIG Report Reveals Gaps in Hospice PRF Compliance: What Providers Need to Know
Podcast: Hot Areas in COVID-19 Enforcement, Testing, and Funding - Diagnosing Health Care
COVID-19 Hospice How-To Series | Pulling the Strings: New OIG Audits Scrutinize How Hospices Used Provider Relief Funds
Healthcare Headlines Episode 5 - COVID Legislation & Regulations: Financial Support for Providers
Stephen Shaver on CARES Act Relief Funds and Healthcare Organizations
COVID-19 Hospice How-To Series: The Latest on Using and Reporting Your Provider Relief Funds
COVID-19 Hospice How-To Series: The Government Yet Again Updates Rules for FFCRA Paid Leave and Provider Relief Fund Reporting
On June 13, 2025, OIG announced the results of an audit it conducted of 30 hospitals that received provider relief fund (PRF) payments during COVID-19 (the Audit). OIG found that 11 of the 30 audited hospitals failed to...more
In last year’s edition of EnforceMintz, we predicted that 2024 would bring an increase in False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement activity related to COVID-19 pandemic fraud. Those predictions proved correct. The COVID-19 Fraud...more
Hospitals and other providers should brace for recoupment of possibly hundreds of millions of dollars they were reportedly overpaid for services provided under the COVID-19 uninsured program (UIP) in the wake of new audit...more
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) reminded providers through a program update on Monday, June 5, 2023, that the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) and COVID-19 Uninsured Program (UIP) Terms and Conditions...more
The US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced on Monday, June 5, 2023, that it has stopped payments to healthcare providers under the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) and COVID-19 Uninsured Program (UIP)....more
Two Weeks Left: Approaching Deadline to Report Period 4 Provider Relief Fund Payments - Most healthcare providers received Provider Relief Fund (PRF) funding (as described in greater detail in a previous McGuireWoods...more
The “epidemic” of COVID-19 related fraud continued unabated in 2022, and we expect to see the same in 2023. The Department of Justice (DOJ) appears poised to continue to aggressively investigate and prosecute COVID-19-related...more
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is seeking repayment of Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments from providers who failed to submit the required report(s) on their use of the funds. Recipients were...more
After more than two years since the initial Provider Relief Fund (“Fund”) disbursement, hospices are beginning to see audits of their Fund expenditures by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) Office of the...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more
What You Need to Know •The federal government is broadening its multi-agency law enforcement effort to address pandemic-related fraud beyond PPP-related cases to encompass alleged instances of healthcare-related COVID-19...more
May 18 Deadline to Request Late Reporting for Provider Relief Fund Period 2 - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a deadline extension for providers that received $10,000 or more in the second...more
On April 20, 2022, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a nationwide coordinated law enforcement action focused on COVID-19-related healthcare fraud. In total, DOJ brought criminal charges against 21 individuals,...more
Beginning on April 11, 2022, providers that failed to satisfy Provider Relief Fund (PRF) Period 1 or Period 2 reporting deadlines may apply to submit a late report based on one of six extenuating circumstances, including...more
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is demanding repayment of funds granted under the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) from recipients who failed to comply with the program’s mandatory reporting requirement....more
Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is authorized to distribute funds from its...more
On March 22, 2022, HHS announced that it had distributed more than $413 million in Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments to more than 3,600 health care providers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. HHS directed its disbursement...more
Looming Deadlines to Report Provider Relief Fund Period 2 Payments and COVID-19 Vaccine Claims - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reporting portal remains open only through March 31, 2022, at 11:59...more
Last week, HHS announced the distribution of more than $560 million in Provider Relief Fund (PRF) Phase 4 General Distribution payments. These payments bring the Phase 4 distribution total to approximately $11.5 billion of...more
Last week, HHS announced the distribution of more than $2 billion in Provider Relief Fund (PRF) Phase 4 General Distribution payments. These payments bring the Phase 4 distribution total to approximately $11 billion of the...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and...more
Last week, HHS announced the distribution of approximately $9 billion in CARES Act Provider Relief Fund (PRF) Phase 4 payments. The average payment for small providers is $58,000, for medium providers is $289,000, and for...more
HHS to Reopen Provider Relief Fund Period 1 Reporting Dec. 13-20 - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reporting portal includes a new statement appearing to give providers an additional week in...more