Cash-strapped Medicaid providers hart hit by the Covid-19 crisis will have an additional month to seek federal relief funds, the Department of Health and Human Services said Friday.
The HHS in June allocated $15 billion to health-care providers that primarily serve low-income and uninsured patients and that hadn’t yet received funding. But the initial deadline for providers to apply for the funds, July 20, proved too difficult for most to meet, the agency said.
Providers now have until Aug. 28 to submit their applications, after the agency previously pushed back the deadline to Aug. 3.
The HHS also said it ...
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