Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updated the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) with numerous additional questions and answers. The list of new questions added is below, and you can find the full list with answers here.
- What will be the methodology/formula used to calculate provider payment in Phase 3 General Distributions?
- What is the payment amount that an applicant should expect to receive from Phase 3 of the General Distribution?
- Must a parent organization that received a Provider Relief Fund Targeted Distribution on behalf of a subsidiary in which it is has a direct ownership relationship remit the payment to the subsidiary?
- If a parent organization received a Provider Relief Fund Targeted Distribution on behalf of a subsidiary, which organization should attest to the Terms and Conditions for the payment?
- Can a parent organization with a direct ownership relationship with a subsidiary that received a Provider Relief Fund Targeted Distribution payment control and allocate that Targeted Distribution payment among other subsidiaries that were not themselves eligible and did not receive a Targeted Distribution (i.e., Skilled Nursing Facility, Safety Net Hospital, Rural, Tribal, High Impact Area) payment?
- In the case of a parent organization with multiple billing TINs that may have each received a General Distribution payment, may the parent organization attest to the Terms and Conditions and keep the payments?
- Are Reporting Entities required to report each General and/or Targeted Distribution payment separately?
- What is the maximum allotment of my organization’s Provider Relief Fund amount that can be allocated to lost revenue in 2020?
- Is interest earned on Provider Relief Fund funds considered a reportable revenue source to HHS?
- Can I use 2020 budgeted revenues as a basis for reporting lost revenues?
- If a parent organization received a Provider Relief Fund Targeted Distribution on behalf of a subsidiary, which organization should report on the use?
- If a subsidiary organization received a Provider Relief Fund Targeted Distribution, and subsequently transferred it to its parent organization, which organization should report on the use?
- Are Reporting Entities required to report each General and/or Targeted Distribution payment separately?
- If an entity incurred enough lost revenue in April and May 2020 to justify its use of the Provider Relief Fund payments received, can it only report those two months?
- If an entity received payments totaling over $10,000, but returned some, do they still have to report?
- If all funds are expended to cover unreimbursed healthcare related expenses attributable to coronavirus, are Reporting Entities still required to submit lost revenue information?
- If a provider administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a patient that has Medicare Part A, but not Part B, coverage, can the provider use Provider Relief Fund payments to cover the unreimbursed costs associated with vaccine administration?
- Can Provider Relief Fund payments be used to support COVID-19 vaccine distribution?
- What is the timeline for distributing quality incentive payments under this nursing home distribution?
