March 19, 2024
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has released Program Assistance Letter (PAL) 2024-03, Calendar Year 2025 Requirements for Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) Coverage for Health Centers and Their Covered Individuals. [...]
March 13, 2024
On Monday, March 12, 2024, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced on their website that calendar year 2025 Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) redeeming applications are due June 24, 2024. [...]
June 16, 2023
On February 2, 2023, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) published Program Assistance Letter (PAL) 2023-01, Calendar Year 2024 Requirements for Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) Coverage for Health Centers and [...]
May 8, 2023
Health center Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) annual redeeming applications are due by June 23, 2023. The requirements for redeeming for CY 2024 are described in Program Assistance Letter 2023-01 (PAL 2023-01), [...]
March 2, 2023
Next week, FTLF attorneys Martin Bree, Molly Evans, Matt Freedus, Susannah Vance Gopalan, Jason Reddish and Ted Waters will speak at the National Association of Community Health Centers’ (NACHC) Policy & Issues [...]
September 19, 2022
A recent Determination of Coverage provides that, under specific circumstances, the dispensing and prescribing of Naloxone to non-health center patients is protected by the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) program. On August [...]
January 18, 2019
On January 15, 2019, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) published the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) Health Center Site Visit Protocol. You can find the protocol on HRSA’s website here. This [...]
January 12, 2017
On December 13, 2016, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act. While the law affects many aspects of the health care industry, including reforms to federal policy on mental health care, [...]
May 20, 2016
Earlier today, HRSA announced that the CY2017 FTCA Deeming Application deadline has been extended to 11:59 pm on Friday, May 27th. The exention was granted after users reported application issues, including issues [...]
April 11, 2016
On Monday HRSA released PAL 2016-03 following this month’s earlier announced application dates and deadlines for the CY 2017 FTCA deeming application process. The Electronic Handbook (EHB) will be open to receive [...]