HHS Revises Reporting Requirements and Timeline for Recipients of Provider Relief Funds

On June 11, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it had revised reporting requirements for recipients of Provider Relief Fund payments. Hospital groups in May asked HHS to extend the original June 30 deadline and distribute the remaining $24 billion in the relief fund.

Some of the key updates include:

• The period of availability of funds is based on the date the payment is received (rather than requiring all payments be used by June 30, 2021, regardless of when they were received).
• Recipients are required to report for each Payment Received Period in which they received one or more payments exceeding, in the aggregate, $10,000 (rather than $10,000 cumulatively across all PRF payments).
• Recipients will have a 90-day period to complete reporting (rather than a 30-day reporting period).
• The reporting requirements are now applicable to recipients of the Skilled Nursing Facility and Nursing Home Infection Control Distribution in addition to General and other Targeted Distributions.
• The PRF Reporting Portal will open for providers to start submitting information on July 1, 2021.

Summary of Reporting Requirements: