HHS: Provider Relief Timing Determines Spending Deadline

The date that provider relief recipients received the COVID-19 aid will determine which spending deadline they must meet, HHS announced Friday (June 11), stopping short of a complete extension of the June 30 deadline while still giving providers, hospitals and lawmakers much of the flexibility they had sought. HHS has faced pressure for weeks from the American Hospital Association, along with other medical organizations and a bipartisan group of 77 lawmakers , to tie the provider relief spending deadline to...