Hospitals: Don’t Use $43.7 Billion In Provider Relief For Infrastructure

The American Hospitals Association is asking senators not to repurpose a remaining $43.7 billion in provider relief to pay for an infrastructure package -- the latest effort by providers, nursing homes and hospitals who have been anxiously waiting nine months for HHS to announce another distribution. AHA’s letter comes days after two lobbyists told Inside Health Policy late Friday (July 23) that senators were coming closer to an agreement that uses COVID-19 provider relief funds to offset some of...