Verma confirms Medicare loan recoupment delay amid Hill negotiations

Modern Healthcare: CMS Administrator Seema Verma on Friday confirmed the agency is holding off on garnishing providers' Medicare payments amid congressional negotiations on repayment terms for the program's COVID-19 loans.

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act expanded the Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payment Program in the spring and required CMS to begin garnishing 100% of loan recipients' Medicare payments starting four months after the loans were issued. The first loans went out in April, and recoupment should have started in August. But Modern Healthcare previously reported that CMS had not started withholding payments.

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