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HHS provides $1.5 million to businesses in Wilkesboro under CARES Act

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Through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Wilkesboro received $1.5 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 North Carolina received $2.3 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 Carolinas Medical Center with a total of $135.4 million. The average loan size in the city was $102,955 while the state's average loan amount was $245,727.

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
1Curis at Wilkesboro Opco, LLC$493,342
2Wake Forest Baptist Health Care at Home, LLC$393,012
3Accordius Health at Wilkesboro, LLC$339,319
4County of Wilkes$190,417
5Stephen J. Wessels$34,881
6Michael J Andreski PA, D.D.S.$18,144
7Michael Vollmer PLLC, OD$17,608
8Family Chiropractic, PC$11,445
9MLP Church Family Practice Inc., M.D.$10,951
10Michelle Hall$8,895
11Pradip Thakkar$8,442
12Doreen Day Holloway P.A. Dc$8,007
13Second to Nature, Inc.$7,002
14Jodi Province Counseling Services, PLLC$2,752
15Wilkes Pharmacy, Inc.$102

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