On June 11, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released revised reporting requirements for recipients of Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments. Updates include expanding the amount of time providers will have to report information, efforts to reduce burdens on smaller providers, and extending key deadlines for expending PRF payments for recipients who received payments after June 30, 2020.

The revised reporting requirements will be applicable to providers who received one or more payments exceeding, in the aggregate, $10,000 during a single Payment Received Period from the PRF General Distributions, Targeted Distributions, and/or Skilled Nursing Facility and Nursing Home Infection Control Distributions. Such providers are required to report in each applicable Reporting Time Period. Reporting must be completed and submitted to HRSA by the last date of the reporting time period. PRF recipients that do not report within the respective reporting time period are out of compliance with payment Terms and Conditions and may be subject to recoupment.

HHS began issuing notices on post-payment reporting requirements in July 2020. On January 15, 2021, HHS issued updated requirements to reflect language in the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021 and opened registration for the reporting portal. The revised reporting requirements supplanting the January 15th requirements can be found here.

Key updates include:

• The period of availability of funds is based on the date the payment is received (rather than requiring all payments be used by June 30, 2021, regardless of when they were received).
• Recipients are required to report for each Payment Received Period in which they received one or more payments exceeding, in the aggregate, $10,000 (rather than $10,000 cumulatively across all PRF payments).
• Recipients will have a 90-day period to complete reporting (rather than a 30-day reporting period).
• The reporting requirements are now applicable to recipients of the Skilled Nursing Facility and Nursing Home Infection Control Distribution in addition to General and other Targeted Distributions.

HRSA has provided the below summary of reporting requirements:

*Payments exceeding $10,000 in aggregate received

The PRF Reporting Portal will open for providers to start submitting information on July 1, 2021.

HRSA continues to encourage providers to establish their PRF Reporting Portal accounts now by registering on HRSA's website. Registration will also allow providers to receive updates closer to the official opening of the portal for their reporting submissions.

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