According to numbers reported through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Georgia received $3.1 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 Northside Hospital, Inc. with a total of $195.1 million. The average loan size in the city was $946,555 while the state's average loan amount was $299,390.
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.
| Rank | Business | Dollar Amount Received |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tift Regional Health System, Inc. | $36,464,353 |
| 2 | Tift Regional Health System, Inc. | $1,054,098 |
| 3 | Tifton Operating Company, LLC | $603,561 |
| 4 | Barnes Drug Stores of Valdosta, Inc. | $298,239 |
| 5 | Life Line Home Care Services, Inc. | $284,942 |
| 6 | Tift County Board of Health | $121,125 |
| 7 | Luminus Diagnostics, LLC | $104,260 |
| 8 | Amerimed Pharmacy & Equipment, LLC. | $85,473 |
| 9 | Tift Regional Dental Group, PC | $75,406 |
| 10 | Centers for Pain Management of Georgia, LLC | $52,503 |
| 11 | Fulp Family Dentistry | $52,022 |
| 12 | New Medical Center | $47,343 |
| 13 | Tift County Comissioner of Roads & Revenues | $46,355 |
| 14 | Homestead Hospice of South Georgia, LLC | $36,436 |
| 15 | Pediatric Dental Center of Georgia | $34,196 |
| 16 | Tiftarea Cardiology | $32,868 |
| 17 | Surgery Center at Cypress Point, LLC | $31,107 |
| 18 | South Georgia Medicine, PC | $30,443 |
| 19 | Ear Nose Throat and Allergy Associates of South Georgia | $28,855 |
| 20 | Southern Podiatry Group, PC | $27,481 |
| 21 | Tifton Cardiovascular, LLC | $25,556 |
| 22 | Open MRI of Tifton, LLC | $25,532 |
| 23 | Ted a Mcelroy, PC, OD | $24,818 |
| 24 | Rehabilitation Services of Tifton, Inc. | $24,306 |
| 25 | Hope Emergency Medical Services, LLC | $23,607 |
| 26 | Southern Home Medical, LLC | $22,353 |
| 27 | Tifton Endoscopy Center, Inc. | $20,277 |
| 28 | Tift Internal Medicine Center | $15,564 |
| 29 | James Stevenot | $13,660 |
| 30 | Family Primecare, LLC | $11,085 |
| 31 | Quickcare, LLC | $10,790 |
| 32 | Valdosta Hypertension Clinic | $9,812 |
| 33 | Never the Same Boutique | $4,695 |
| 34 | Colquitt Regional Rheumatology, LLC | $3,863 |
| 35 | Wholistic Therapeutic Services | $2,753 |
| 36 | Alexia Tanner | $2,475 |
| 37 | Fulp Spinal Wellness Center, LLC | $971 |
| 38 | Moons Pharmacy, Inc. | $745 |
| 39 | Phyllis Cazares | $614 |
| 40 | DR James a Powell JR DC, PC | $365 |
| 41 | Robert Simmons | $340 |
| 42 | Allen Pharmacy Group, LLC | $50 |
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