HHS announced this week that you have until June 3rd to submit revenue information for consideration for additional payment from the allocated $50 billion general distribution. While HHS automatically disbursed payments from the first tranche that began April 10th, the…
Strategic Healthcare Partners in conjunction with Michele Madison at Morris, Manning & Martin present the COVID-19 Hospital Forum. Hear from subject matter experts along with your peers as they share what is happening and how to respond to it. The…
With so much information coming out over the last few days, we anticipate great discussion during the Physician / Manager Forum on Tuesday. Please join us @ 5:30pEST along with our guest, Michele Madison of Morris, Manning & Martin as…
HHS has issued the formulas used for the last rounds of targeted allocations; including the $10B Rural Hospital/RHC Distribution and the now $12B High Impact COVID Distribution. Also included below is a quick recap of filing claims for the HRSA COVID 19 uninsured allocation.
Q. For COVID-19 relief funds, what is needed to properly receive reimbursement or loan forgiveness from the government? A. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan program has specific full forgiveness requirements, but the Small Business Administration (SBA) continues to evolve the…
Today, the Supreme Court released their decision regarding a hospital lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Several hospitals had joined together to sue DHHS regarding a previous rule change in the calculation of disproportionate share hospital…
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) released yet another voluntary payment model intended on restructuring financial reimbursement for primary care services. At face value, Primary Care First furthers many of the underlying concepts utilized in CPC+ by generally…
Healthcare operations continue to stride forward in new directions; Forbes published an article this week detailing how BCBSGA, UHC and Aetna are running pilot programs where they are directly employing providers that circumnavigate the existing healthcare delivery systems. From the…
In mid-November 2018, the CMS, under the direction of the Trump administration, proposed highly anticipated modifications to managed care regulations that were put in place back in 2016. These modifications would grant states more flexibility in determining network adequacy standards…
As the payer market in Georgia has consolidated through mergers/acquisitions; one of their key goals was increased efficiencies that they could leverage through size. Unfortunately, their provider partners have seen the exact opposite: consolidation has taken significant power out of…