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HHS Awards More than Half Billion Dollars Across the Nation to Expand COVID-19 Testing
Today, HHS awarded nearly $583 million to 1,385 health centers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and eight U.S. territories to expand COVID-19 testing.
Health centers will use this funding to expand the range of testing and testing-related activities to best address the needs of their local communities, including the purchase of personal protective equipment; training for staff, outreach, procurement and administration of tests; laboratory services; notifying identified contacts of infected health center patients of their exposure to COVID-19; and the expansion of walk-up or drive-up testing capabilities.
See a list of award recipients.
Health Center Program look-alikes will soon receive more information about an opportunity to apply for funds for the purposes of expanding capacity for coronavirus testing. HRSA will provide more information as soon as it is available.
HRSA will host two question and answer (Q&A) sessions to answer health centers’ questions about developing their FY 2020 Expanding Capacity for Coronavirus Testing (ECT) (H8E) activities and budgets.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
We continually update our Health Center Program COVID-19 FAQs webpage. Today we added a question on health center billing for COVID-19 testing and treatment.
We also updated our coronavirus-related funding FAQs to reflect the new H8E supplemental funding announced above, including adding new questions about this funding.
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Health Center and Look-Alike COVID-19 Survey Data Published
Yesterday, we published updated COVID-19 data collected from HRSA-funded health centers and look-alikes.
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CMS Provides Additional Telehealth Flexibilities during COVID-19: Audio-only Medicare Services
CMS recently announced additional telehealth flexibilities including permitting Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Centers (RHCs) to furnish and receive reimbursement for certain audio-only telephone evaluation and management services to Medicare beneficiaries during the COVID-19 public health emergency period. For more information, see last week’s Medicare Learning Network Matters and CMS’ COVID-19 flexibilities fact sheet for FQHCs and RHCs.
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Upcoming Events
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Today with Macrae: Health Center Program Updates
Our next Today with Macrae session will focus on COVID-19 and funding updates.
Tuesday, May 19
2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Join the webinar the day of the session*
Call-in: 800-369-1724
Passcode: 3620392
*NOTE: This link will be accessible only to the first 1,500 participants. If you cannot log in for the visual portion, please still call in!
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COVID-19 Dental Clinic Reopening Listening Sessions
As many states lift stay-at-home orders for COVID-19, dental clinics are preparing to reopen and resume non-emergency dental services. The National Network for Oral Health Access (NNOHA), a HRSA-funded NCA, is hosting listening sessions to give health center dental programs the opportunity to have an open discussion with colleagues. Participants can listen and share plans and strategies on reopening dental clinics with their peers.
NNOHA is also hosting a webinar on teledentistry during COVID-19 next Tuesday, May 12.
Questions?
If you have questions about the Health Center Program and COVID-19, please contact Health Center Program Support online. Select “Coronavirus Inquiries (COVID-19)” as the issue type—the third option on the “Health Center or EHBs Question” screen.
You can also call Health Center Program Support at 877-464-4772, option 2, 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET, Monday-Friday (except federal holidays).
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