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The Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) has completed review of Phase 3 applications for the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund (“PRF”) and expects to distribute $24.5 billion to over 70,000 health care providers by the end of this month. These payments are intended to cover loss revenues attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to HRSA, over 35,000 Phase 3 applicants will not receive any additional payment because they either experienced no change in revenues or net expenses attributable to COVID-19,

The Centers for Medicare and & Medicaid (“CMS”) have issued the following COVID-19 emergency blanket waivers for health care providers associated with provider enrollment.

American Health Lawyers Association, Annual Meeting, Choose Your Friends Wisely or Face the Consequences under the New Provider Enrollment Rule.

When: June 28-July 1, 2020

Where: Webinar

On June 9, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it will allocate approximately $15 billion to providers who participate in state Medicaid program and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and who did not receive payments from the initial $50 billion in general allocations from the Provider Relief Fund under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. This funding is intended to provide relief to Medicaid and CHIP providers experiencing lost revenues or increased expenses due to COVID‑19.

On April 20, 2020, the California Attorney General (“AG”) issued a published opinion clarifying that the “effective date” for purposes of filing a Business and Professions Code 805 report is the date on which a peer review body’s decision becomes final, following the conclusion of a licentiate’s appeal to the body of its proposed final action, and not the date of the peer review body’s final proposed decision. Section 805 requires a report to be filed with the relevant state healing arts licensing agency “within 15 days after the effective date” of certain actions taken by a peer review body against specified health care licentiates,

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 pandemic on March 11, 2020.[1] As a result, there are more patients in need of immediate and attentive care, and many practices now have to consider how to continue providing necessary services while containing the spread of COVID-19 with balancing current and future needs for clinician services, medical supplies and access to personal protective equipment (PPE). In response to this, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended the postponement of non-essential adult elective surgeries and medical and surgical procedures to conserve resources,[2] and the Centers for Medicare &

For the ninth consecutive year, Jeanne L. Vance presented at the American Health Lawyers’ Association’s Medicare Medicaid Payment Issues conference regarding provider enrollment. Ms. Vance was a panelist regarding “Hot Topics in Provider Enrollment” March 20-22, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland.

American Health Lawyers Association, Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues Conference, Hot Topics in Provider Enrollment and Advanced Insights.

When: March 20-22, 2019

Where: Baltimore, Maryland.

American Health Lawyers Association, National Webinar, Hospital Deals: How to Avoid a Regulatory Crash & Burn.

When: April 19, 2018

Where: Webinar

Jeanne L. Vance will present at an American Health Lawyers Association webinar panel called, “Hospital Deals: How to Avoid A Regulatory Crash and Burn” on April 19. She joins national experts on hospital acquisitions and licensing and enrollment matters.