Payments starting to hospitals with high COVID-19 admissions, rural providers

From U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a release Friday that it is processing payments from the Provider Relief Fund to hospitals with large numbers of COVID-19 inpatient admissions through April 10 and to rural providers in support of the national response to COVID-19.

Montana is receiving payments in the rural providers $10 billion distribution, with Health and Human Services saying 121 providers will receive a total of $199,485,740.

“These new payments are being distributed to health care providers who have been hardest hit by...