Healthcare DIVE September 28, 2020
Dive Brief:
- The federal government has shelled out some $106 billion in relief payments to providers since the signing of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtually all of that has been for hospitals, doctors and other providers in terms of direct assistance. However, $1.3 billion in payments have been made to cover COVID testing and treatment for uninsured patients.
- More than 525,000 individual providers have received some form of payment from the CARES Act funds. Of those, more than 343,000 have attested that they met the terms and conditions for receiving the money. Disbursements to individual providers ranged from slightly more than $1 to $300,000 per person, according to records...