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The Small Business Administration and Department of the Treasury announced that SBA is now accepting and processing Paycheck Protection Program loan applications.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services April 26 announced it is reevaluating the amounts that will be paid under its Accelerated Payment Program and suspending its Advance Payment Program effective immediately.
Health care providers are eligible for reimbursement from the federal government for COVID-19 testing, treatment and related services provided to the uninsured.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week released a new tool for estimating surges in demand for hospital-based services related to COVID-19.
AHA supports extending the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model for an additional three years, but only on a voluntary basis, the association told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in comments submitted.
The Food and Drug Administration issued guidance allowing patients to use certain non-invasive fetal and maternal monitoring devices in the home during the COVID-19 emergency to reduce the need for in-clinic visits.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released contingency and crisis capacity strategies for the cleaning, decontamination and use of reusable elastomeric respirators during surge demand situations.
Reps. Cynthia Axne, D-Iowa, Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, and French Hill, R-Ark., introduced the Emergency COVID Telehealth Response Act, legislation that would extend the Department of Health and Human Services’ waiver authority for telehealth services
As urged by the AHA, the Department of Health and Human Services has extended to Saturday, April 25 at 12 p.m. PST the deadline for hospitals to submit data to help inform HHS’s targeted distribution of funds to hospitals and other facilities particularly burdened by COVID-19.
As urged by the AHA, the U.S. Small Business Administration today issued an interim final rule clarifying certain provisions implementing the Paycheck Protection Program, including whether public hospitals are eligible for a PPP loan.