Medical Groups Urge HHS to Reopen Covid Aid Reporting Period

Dozens of medical groups are urging the Health Resources and Services Administration to reopen the reporting period for pandemic assistance money, as roughly 10,000 recipients are being asked to return the money for missing the deadline.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ HRSA is clawing back as much as $100 million from providers who received the money without asking for it and say they didn’t know there were strings attached.

HRSA required facilities that received more than $10,000 to report how they spent the funds by Sept. 30, 2021. But reminder emails about the reporting requirements went to some ...