HUD, along with the HHS office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the HHS Administration for Community Living, is hosting a July 29, 2- 3pm ET, webinar, “Telehealth for Community-Based Organizations: Services, Payment, and Partners.”
On July 23rd, HUD published guidance for owners to access COVID-19 Supplemental Payments, or CSPs, for Project-Based Section 8, Section 202, and Section 811 communities. HUD is making available one-time supplemental payments to owners of CARES Act funds to help offset property expenditures for COVID-19 preparedness and response.
On July 23, HUD officially abandoned the 1968 Fair Housing Act’s requirement to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing. The Obama Administration finalized the promulgation of AFFH regulations in 2015, 47 years after the Fair Housing Act was enacted into law. HUD suspended the AFFH in 2018 and proposed to significantly gut it in early 2020. On July 23, HUD formally repealed HUD’s AFFH rules and announced a final rule, which never went through the regular process of first being a proposed or interim rule, called “Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice.”
The brief document is short on details about what providers will be required to report but notes that it will be releasing detailed reporting instructions and a data collection template by August 17. The new document, however, establishes the reporting timeline for providers:
The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has updated guidance based on evolving evidence about the efficacy of re-testing COVID-positive adults. CDC asserts, based on new research, that adults who test positive for COVID-19 may continue to test positive long after they cease to be infectious.
July 17th Update: LeadingAge received additional information on the forthcoming Service Coordinator allocations from the CARES Act announced in a HUD memo on July 10th: In the next few weeks, HUD will be issuing a prescriptive list of allowable uses for the funds.
The March 27 CARES Act included a 120-day evictions moratorium for non-payment of rent and prohibited charging fees, penalties, or other charges to the tenant related to such nonpayment of rent. As the sunsetting of these provisions looms, on July 25, the Rural Housing Service has updated its frequently asked questions for multifamily housing providers.
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) recently announced plans to supply rapid point-of-care testing instruments and tests to nursing homes throughout the country to aid in identification and mitigation of COVID-19.
These letters notifying providers of noncompliance with QRP are distributed to SNFs in at least one of three possible ways: 1) through the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs); 2) placed in a provider’s CASPER folders in QIES; and/or a 3) Via U.S. Postal Service. Providers deemed noncompliant will see their Medicare Fee For Service rates reduced 2% beginning October 1, 2020.
During the first three months of the COVID-19 health crisis in the U.S., the aging services field has seen a flurry of regulatory activity, including for affordable senior housing. LeadingAge worked in partnership with HUD’s Multifamily Housing and Recapitalization teams to meet the needs of housing providers serving older adults, who are at higher risk of the virus.
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