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Coronavirus Update for Tuesday, July 28

The following is the latest information from the federal government as of 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 28. Senate “HEALS” Act Yesterday, Senate Republicans introduced the Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools Act (“HEALS”), their proposed COVID-19/stimulus bill. Health care highlights include: Increasing the time providers will have before CMS begins recoupment of loans made through the Accelerated and Advance Payment Program and an extension of the time before providers will need to pay interest on those loans. $25 billion to be added to the CARES Act’s Provider Relief Fund. Extension of the current Medicare telehealth waivers through 2021 [...]

Coronavirus Update for Thursday, July 2

The following is the latest information from the federal government as of 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 2. Reminder: Submit COVID-19 Case Data Hospitals interested in obtaining supplies of the drug remdesivir from the federal government must submit data on their current COVID-19 caseloads to the federal government every two weeks. The first reporting deadline is Monday, July 6 at 8:00 p.m. (eastern). Hospitals must submit their data through HHS’s teletracking portal. In support of its future distribution of remdesivir, HHS has prepared a fact sheet describing the process that will be used to allocate and distribute the approximately 500,000 [...]