Assisted living deserves more after ‘hundreds of millions’ in COVID-19 relief funds mismanaged by feds, provider group says

McKnight’s Senior Living October 13, 2022
Kimberly Bonvissuto

“Hundreds of millions” of mismanaged federal Provider Relief Fund dollars should be recouped and distributed to assisted living providers, Argentum said Wednesday.

The Department of Health and Human Services did not “establish procedures to verify reported losses,” potentially leading to fraudulent payments to other providers, Argentum said, pointing to the results of a congressionally mandated audit of the PRF by HHS Office of the Inspector General.

For Phase 1 payments, for which assisted living providers were not eligible, HHS did not require supporting documentation to verify financial losses when applying for relief, Argentum Vice President of Government Relations Paul Williams said.

“This opened the door to fraud and overpayments,” he told McKnight’s Senior Living.

The OIG also found that HHS...

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