Fierce Health Payers April 2, 2021
The Department of Health and Human Services appears to have begun conducting an outlier analysis on its reimbursement to healthcare providers for treating uninsured COVID-19 patients. Providers have who have received payments from the COVID-19 Uninsured Program should take steps to ensure that they are in full compliance with the terms and conditions for payment, including the balance billing restriction.
On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act appropriated $100 billion to HHS to issue pandemic relief payments to healthcare providers. Using this funding, supplemented with additional appropriations, HHS created a program to reimburse providers for treatment of uninsured COVID-19 patients and COVID-19 testing and vaccination for uninsured individuals.
According to a public database...
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