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When requesting late reporting for Period 1 of Provider Relief Fund payments, it won’t be enough to just say you missed the deadline — you’ll need a valid reason why.

“In order to meet the ‘extenuating circumstance’ threshold, a provider must attest that one of the following allowable extenuating circumstances applied at the time of the deadline,” note attorneys Alexander B. Foster and Hedy Silver Rubinger with law firm Arnall Golden Gregory in online analysis. Those circumstances as listed by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration are:

1. Severe illness or death: a severe medical condition or death of a provider or key staff member responsible for reporting hindered the organization’s ability to complete the report during the Reporting Period.

2. Impacted by natural disaster: a natural disaster occurred during or in close proximity of the end of the Reporting Period damaging the organization’s records or information technology.

3. Lack of receipt of reporting communications: an incorrect email or mailing address on file with HRSA prevented the organization from receiving instructions prior to the Reporting Period deadline.

4. Failure to click “Submit”: the organization registered and prepared a report in the PRF Reporting Portal, but failed to take the final step to click “Submit” prior to deadline.

5. Internal miscommunication or error: internal miscommunication or error regarding the individual who was authorized and expected to submit the report on behalf of the organization and/or the registered point of contact in the PRF Reporting Portal.

6. Incomplete Targeted Distribution payments: the organization’s parent entity completed all General Distribution payments, but a Targeted Distribution(s) was not reported on by the subsidiary.

Note: More late reporting details are at www.hrsa.gov/provider-relief/reporting-auditing/late-reporting-requests.