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© Getty Images Congress did the right thing in the American Recovery Plan by providing an additional $4.5 billion in assistance for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to help struggling families pay their energy bills. But that was almost two months ago, and the funds have not been released. ADVERTISEMENT Struggling families around the country are facing the impossible choice of paying for their utility bill, which could be upwards of $3,000 if they fell behind due to pandemic-related unemployment, or buying food, medicine, and other necessities. Utilities are also facing...

On April 1, 2021, CMS announced that it began recovering COVID-19 Accelerated and Advance Payments (CAAPs) from Medicare providers and suppliers as early as March 30, 2021. Repayments...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Recoupment has started or will soon begin for Medicare Part A and Part B providers and suppliers who received funds in 2020 under the Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payment (AAP) Program. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provided $106 billion in AAP funding to alleviate the financial cash-flow burdens healthcare providers faced in the early stages of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. CMS began the COVID-19-related AAP funding with an announcement on March 28, 2020, and effectively ended funding by t...

Just because you have more time to file your taxes doesn’t mean you should necessarily take advantage of the later deadline. There are good reasons not to delay. As they say, the early bird gets the worm…or at least a quicker refund.

Thursday, March 11, 2021 On March 10, 2021, Congress finalized and passed the American Rescue Plan of 2021 (ARP), the latest COVID-19 relief package that largely tracks President Biden’s initial $1.9 trillion proposal. The ARP extends unemployment insurance benefits and provides direct $1,400 stimulus payments to qualifying Americans, but it also makes several important health-policy-related changes. These include providing funding for vaccine distribution and testing to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, making policy adjustments to the Medicaid program, facilitating health insurance ...