Visualizing the distribution of healthcare emergency funding during COVID-19

Visualizing where the $175 billion in healthcare emergency funding is headed - hospitals, providers, pandemic hot spots, and more.
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Healthcare emergency funding distribution.

The latest round of stimulus funding includes $75 billion more in healthcare bailout money, which brings total funding to $175 billion.

Here’s where all the emergency healthcare funding has gone so far:

  • Phase 1: $30 billion to hospitals based on historical Medicare fee-for-service revenue
  • Phase 2: $20 billion to hospitals based on 2018 total net patient revenue. $10 billion for pandemic hot spots, $10 billion for rural health providers, and $400 million for the Indian Health Services
  • Yet to be distributed: $105(ish) billion.

Other healthcare emergency funding things to know.

With this new $75 billion increase in bailout money, CMS is now suspending its accelerated payment program to providers.

  • On another interesting note, rural hospitals are now eligible for small business loans after worries of being ‘crowded out’ of bailout funding.

More: Which hospitals have received bailout funds, and how much? Also, some of the CARES act funding went to closed hospitals, according to ModernHealthcare.

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