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
Our Health Care Team eyes the abrupt end of payments to health care providers under the Provider Relief Fund. HRSA will no longer process or complete reconsideration requests....more
Our Health Care Group analyzes why the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) is flexing its auditing muscles and explores the implications for entities that received Provider Relief Funds and American Rescue Plan...more
Most healthcare providers received Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments (as described in greater detail in a previous McGuireWoods client alert) from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) earlier in the...more
Providers who received Provider Relief Funds (“Funds”) exceeding $10,000 in the aggregate between July 1 and December 31, 2021, are required to file reports on use of funds during Reporting Period 4. The Fund Reporting...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 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
The Health Resources & Services Administration (“HRSA”) has allowed Provider Relief Fund (“Fund”) recipients who failed to timely report on use of Funds, but still retained them, to request to report late. We previously...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
The initial phase of Provider Relief Funds (“Funds”) was distributed in April 2020, and since then, many providers have been playing catch up. The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) recently addressed two...more
The Provider Relief Fund was established in the CARES Act to reimburse eligible health care providers for increased expenses or lost revenue attributable to the Covid-19 pandemic. As a condition of receiving funds, providers...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
As of April 11, 2022, the Health Resources & Services Administration (“HRSA”) is now offering providers who missed the original Provider Relief Fund (“PRF”) reporting deadlines the opportunity to request the ability to report...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
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
The Provider Relief Fund (PRF) Reporting Portal opened for Reporting Period 2 on January 1, 2022. Recipients who received one or more General and/or Targeted PRF payments exceeding $10,000 in the aggregate from July 1, 2020...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
On September 10, 2021, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) made several important announcements regarding the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) and its approaching...more
On September 10, the Biden-Harris Administration, in conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced that $25.5 billion in relief funds will be distributed to healthcare providers through the...more
As reported in a previous blog post, the Texas 87th Legislature passed S.B. 809, an Act adding Chapter 81A entitled “Coronavirus Disease Public Health Emergency Reporting” to the Texas Health and Safety Code...more
Helpful Hints - HHS Releases Revised Reporting Requirements and Timeline for Provider Relief Fund Payments - On June 11, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released revised reporting requirements...more
With both providers and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) focused on the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) reporting requirements since the beginning of 2021, relatively few Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) issued by...more
On 1 July 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) opened the Provider Relief Fund Reporting Portal for funding recipients to start submitting information in accordance with the Post-Payment Notice of Reporting...more
The long-awaited Provider Relief Fund reporting portal is now open. Providers who received one or more provider relief fund payments exceeding $10,000 in the aggregate during Period 1 (from April 10, 2020 to June 30, 2020)...more