Healthcare providers, including those in home care, are in line to get $2 billion more in provider relief funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The payments will go out this week to 7,600 healthcare providers across the country.
“Provider Relief Fund payments have served as a lifeline for our nation’s heroic health care providers throughout the pandemic, helping them to continue to recruit and retain staff and deliver care to their communities,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement.
The money comes one month after HHS released $9 billion in funds to providers, bringing the total amount of payments in Phase 4 of General Distribution Payments to $11 billion. The total payments in Phase 4 range in size from $1.3 billion to California to $3,276 to American Samoa.
Provider Relief Fund payments are intended to help healthcare providers respond to economic hardships created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare agencies can use the money to pay for personnel, recruitment and retention initiatives, medical supplies, information technology and other functions to remain in business.
Roughly 74,000 providers in 50 states have received the funds so far.
