Home Health & Hospice Week
Don’t Forget To Report Latest COVID Relief Fund Spending
Reporting Period 5 is underway. The feds may have stopped handing out COVID relief funds, but you still need to be documenting and reporting how you’ve spent what you’ve gotten so far. Many providers received Provider Relief Funding between Jan. 1, 2022, and June 30, 2022, points out accounting and advising firm The Health Group in Morgantown, W. Va. “The reporting for the use of these funds began on July 1, 2023,” the firm highlights. “Providers who received one or more PRF (General or Targeted) and/or American Rescue Plan Rural payments exceeding $10,000, in the aggregate, from January 1 to June 30, 2022 must report on their use of funds during Reporting Period 5 to comply with PRF Reporting Requirements,” the National Association for Home Care & Hospice stresses in its member newsletter. RP 5 ends on Sept. 30, the Health Resources & Services Administration notes on its PRF reporting webpage. “Providers must return unused funds to HRSA within 30 days of submitting a report,” NAHC adds. “Lost revenues and COVID-19 expenses through June 30, 2023, are included in the report,” the Health Group reviews. “Agencies should ensure that all COVID-19 PHE expenses have been identified and properly recorded in anticipation of making the required reporting,” it urges. Reporting details are at https://prfreporting.hrsa.gov.
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