CARES Act: Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund

Going forward, HHS will allow providers that submitted data as part of the COVID-19 High Impact Area Distribution and/or the Nursing Home Infection Control/Quality Incentive Payment Distribution, a limited opportunity to submit corrected data for up to 5 business days after the submission deadline. HHS will only accept corrections within the 5-day time period that are accompanied by a justification for why the provider erred in the initial data submission.

• Under section 2202 of the CARES Act, the Treasury Department and the IRS may issue guidance that expands the list of factors taken into account to determine whether an individual is a qualified individual as a result of experiencing adverse financial consequences.
• Almost $1 billion for the National Institutes of Health to support research, including research on coronavirus and developing countermeasures to prevent and treat COVID-19 disease.
• On March 18, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act , which provided additional flexibility for state unemployment insurance agencies and additional administrative funding to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The Community Development Block Grant CARES Act (CDBG-CV) program provides grants to states, insular areas, and local governments to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the spread of COVID-19.

The provider may be considered for future distributions if it meets the eligibility criteria for that distribution. The Provider Relief Fund Terms and Conditions and applicable laws authorize HHS to audit Provider Relief Fund recipients now or in the future to ensure that program requirements are/were met.

Your Government

None of these funds may be used to require people experiencing homelessness to receive treatment or perform any other prerequisite activities as a condition for receiving shelter, housing, or other services. At the discretion of the HUD Secretary, these activities and authorities may also apply to funding provided under FY 2020 appropriations. May be used to provide relocation services, including to provide lodging at hotels, motels, or other locations, for persons living with HIV/AIDS and household members not living with HIV/AIDS. Recipients of payments shall submit reports and maintain documentation as the Secretary of Health and Human Services determines are needed to ensure compliance with conditions imposed for such payments. $1,500,000 for the HHS Secretary to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act to examine, and, in a manner that does not compromise national security, report on, the security of the United States medical product supply chain.

• HHS may consider providers that have only received a Provider Relief Fund General Distribution for priority under future General Distributions.
• Of that money, approximately $14 billion was given to the Office of Postsecondary Education as the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund, or HEERF.
• May be used to provide relocation services, including to provide lodging at hotels, motels, or other locations, for persons living with HIV/AIDS and household members not living with HIV/AIDS.
• Recipients of funding must still comply with the Terms and Conditions related to permissible uses of Provider Relief Fund payments.
• The job an individual held before the spread of COVID-19 will constitute, in the vast majority of cases, suitable employment for purposes of unemployment insurance eligibility.
• At least 70 percent of every grant must be expended for activities that benefit low- and moderate-income persons by providing housing, a permanent job, a public service, or access to new or significantly improved infrastructure.
• Subject to the facts and circumstances of each case, participating employees generally are not treated as having an employer-initiated severance from employment for purposes of calculating the turnover rate used to help determine whether a partial termination has occurred during an applicable period, if they’re rehired by the end of that period.

If the provider received a payment via check and has not yet deposited it, destroy, shred, or securely dispose of it. If the provider has already deposited the check, mail a refund check for the full amount, payable to “UnitedHealth Group” to the address below via United States Postal Service ; mailing services such as FedEx and UPS cannot be used with this PO box. Please list the check number from the original Provider Relief Fund check in the memo. Mail a refund check for the full amount payable to “UnitedHealth Group” to the address below. If you received a notice from the Provider Relief Fund that you had funds available, but did not take action within 90 days of the original payment issuance date, the payment is no longer available to you. If it is past the 90-day period for a General Distribution payment, you may apply for a Phase 2 – General Distribution payment through theProvider Relief Attestation and Application Portal. If it is within 90 days of the original payment issuance date, you must contact the Provider Support Line to reinitiate your ACH payment.

What are the underwriting and security requirements?

$7,500,000 for necessary expenses of the Geospatial Research, Analysis and Services Program to support spatial analysis and Geographic Information System mapping of infectious disease hot spots, including cruise ships. Requires the Postal Service to prioritize delivery of postal products for medical purposes and allows it to establish temporary delivery points, in such form and manner as the Postal Service determines necessary, to protect employees of the Postal Service and individuals receiving deliveries from the Postal Service. Remaining $76.5 billion allocated proportionately based on a state’s share of the total U.S. population . Extend the period that accelerated payments cover so that it covers up to a 6-month period. $200 per day and $2,000 in the aggregate for each employee, when the employee is taking leave to provide caregiving for an individual impacted by COVID-19. Overall, we identified $242.4 billion provided for health or health-related activities under Division B, though this estimate should be treated as a floor.

To better measure and address payment errors, GAO recommended that the Office of Management and Budget require agencies to certify their submitted data on payments. And for the Small Business Administration’s emergency loan programs to implement GAO’s recommendations to strengthen program integrity and protection against fraud.

Government Shared Services

Up to 2% of funding may be used, without competition, to increase prior awards made to existing technical assistance providers. Products purchased by the federal government with these funds, including vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics, shall be purchased in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation guidance on fair and reasonable pricing. Health Surveillance and Program Support$425,000,000To remain available through Sept. 30, 2021Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services For an additional amount for “Program Management” to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically and internationally.

Additional information will be posted as available on theFuture Paymentspage. HHS reserves the right to audit Provider Relief Fund recipients now or in the future, and may pursue collection activity to recover any ARP Rural payment amounts that have not been supported by documentation or payments not used in a manner consistent with program requirements or applicable law. All payment recipients must attest to the Terms and Conditions, which require maintaining documentation to substantiate that these funds were used for health care-related expenses or lost revenues attributable to COVID-19. A health care provider that is described in section 501 of the Code generally is exempt from federal income taxation under section 501.

Billion Hospital and Healthcare Providers Assistance

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Provider Relief Fund payments that were made incorrectly, or exceed lost revenues or expenses due to coronavirus, or do not otherwise meet applicable legal and program requirements must be returned to HHS, and HHS is authorized to recover these funds. Payments from the Provider Relief Fund shall not be subject to the claims of the provider’s creditors and providers are limited in their ability to transfer Provider Relief Fund payments to their creditors. A provider may utilize Provider Relief Fund payments to satisfy creditors’ claims, but only to the extent that such claims constitute eligible health care related cares act expenses and lost revenues attributable to coronavirus and are made to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, as set forth under the Terms and Conditions. In order to ensure program integrity and transparency, HHS made Provider Relief Fund payments to health care providers based on the latest data available for a TIN. As previous owners are not permitted to transfer funds to the new owner, they were instructed to return the funds to HHS. Providers that have not received payments under the Provider Relief Fund due to issues related to change of ownership will be eligible to apply for future allocations.