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HHS provides $10.9 million to businesses in Liberal under CARES Act

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Through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Liberal received $10.9 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 Kansas received $1.1 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 University of Kansas Hospital Authority with a total of $68.2 million. The average loan size in the city was $364,448 while the state's average loan amount was $273,003.

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
1Southwest Medical Center$10,405,010
2Southwest Guidance Center, Inc.$113,063
3Ob-Gyn Associates of Southwest Kansas, Chartered$45,497
4Jury, Farrar and Associates, Doctors of Optometry, PA$40,250
5Mariana E. Lucero, Chartered, M.D.$35,811
6Terry Romans, D.D.S.$30,367
7Dermatology Laser Center, LLC$28,686
8Southwest Family Medicine, LLC$28,446
9Raymond B Leidich Facs, M.D.$25,404
10Rural Kansas Emergency Physicians, LLC$19,891
11Bradley J Rachow LLC, D.D.S.$19,548
12Southwest Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine PA$19,199
13County of Seward$16,059
14Suhail Ansari Chartered, M.D.$12,793
15Sharon Mitchell$11,523
16Doctors Office, LLC$10,056
17Richard a Farmer Chartered, D.D.S.$9,991
18Gill Internal Medicine, LLC$9,693
19Dora L Davis PA, OD$8,151
20Southwest Radiological Consultants, LLC$7,735
21DR Rick J Fitzgerald PA, M.D.$6,827
22Tapestry Psychiatric Services$5,747
23A Zainali Radiology PA, M.D.$5,364
24Liberal Diagnostics, LLC$5,299
25Miller Chiropratic of Liberal Kansas, LLC$3,963
26Rachow Physical Therapy, LLC$3,755
27Liberal Family Chiropractic, Inc.$3,375
28Michael Fulton$1,918
29El Kan Drug, Inc.$19
30Carolyn Huddleston$9

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