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HHS provides $5.4 million to businesses in Metropolis under CARES Act

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Through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Metropolis received $5.4 million in health-related relief from the CARES Act issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.

According to numbers reported through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Illinois received $5.2 billion in health-related relief from the CARES Act issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. The largest recipient of funding in the state was Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation with a total of $316 million. The average loan size in the city was $384,175 while the state's average loan amount was $335,543.

Of the money distributed, $30 billion went out automatically to health providers based on previous year medicare payments. If the money wasn't returned within 90 days the provider is then automatically entered into the repayment terms that are issued by HHS. With the money going out automatically and the rules constantly changing, some of the businesses that received the money weren't eligible to receive it once the final rules were sent out.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, this information represents the list of providers that received a payment from the General Distribution, High Impact Targeted Allocation, Safety Net Hospitals, Non-Medicare, Rural Targeted Allocation and/or the Skilled Nursing Facility Targeted Allocation of the Provider Relief Fund and who have attested to receiving one or more payments and agreed to the Terms and Conditions as of July 8, 2020.

All PPP loan recipients
RankBusinessDollar Amount Received
1Massac Memorial Hospital$4,128,299
2Southgate Health Care Center, Inc.$894,775
3Massac County Surgery Center, LLC$164,210
4Metropolis Dialysis Services, LLC$57,845
5Barbara Bowers PLLC, M.D.$57,560
6Bharat K. Patel Sc$32,037
7John H Shelton PC, D.M.D.$22,629
8Kyle W. Heine PC, D.M.D.$8,354
9Mark Brunk$6,463
10Metrolpolis Drugs II, Inc.$1,932
11Fred White$1,804
12Jeffrey Lange$1,238
13Chiropractic Works, LLC$1,159
14Enrique Yap$148

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