The Provider Relief Fund payment recipient has discretion in allocating the payments to support its subsidiaries’ health care-related expenses or lost revenues attributable to coronavirus, so long as the payment is used to prevent, prepare for, or respond to coronavirus and those expenses or lost revenues are not reimbursed from other sources or other sources were not obligated to reimburse.
Option iii, from the Post-Payment Notice of Reporting Requirements, provides Reporting Entities flexibility in the reconciliation of lost revenues. Lost revenues may then be applied as the reporting entity sees fit. Reporting Entities should work with their accounting firms to determine an appropriate way to allocate expenses and lost revenues. The Reporting Entity is responsible for ensuring that adequate documentation is maintained. Provider Relief Fund payments may be applied to expenses and lost revenues attributable to coronavirus according to the Period of Availability of funding. However, expenses and lost revenues may not be duplicated: payments may not be applied to the same expenses and lost revenues that were reported on in prior reporting periods.
(Added 9/13/2021)