Mass. hospitals getting shortchanged by feds, industry says
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Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester
As their employees continue to care for COVID-19 patients, Massachusetts hospitals say they are getting shortchanged by the federal government, compared to their counterparts in other states, on federal relief funds.
"The funding formulas that U.S. Health & Human Services has used to distribute the money – as well as the early cutoff dates the government used to assess the number of COVID-19 cases in a state – has meant that the commonwealth’s large surge in cases was not counted fully," the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association wrote in its Monday newsletter. "Less money flowed to the state at a time when it is needed most."
The assessment is based on calculations involving the number of COVID-19 cases in each state and funds allocated in the first two rounds of the Provider Relief Fund and the recent COVID-19 High Impact and Rural Healthcare Provider allocations.
The MHA concluded Massachusetts has received "the second lowest federal hospital relief funding per COVID-19 case in the nation."
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