Fierce Health Payers October 9, 2020
Little cash has been sent out to providers to reimburse them for treating uninsured COVID-19 patients.
A new analysis released Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foundation says there are several reasons, including the structure of a program created by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide those reimbursements.
According to that report, HHS has only given out $881 million in payments as of Sept. 30 to compensate providers. An earlier estimate from the foundation found that the cost of treating uninsured COVID-19 hospitalized patients could be between nearly $14 billion and $41.8 billion.
But there are several reasons for the small amount of money for uninsured costs, they said.
One important factor is that HHS makes eligibility...
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