According to numbers reported through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Arkansas received $931.5 million 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 Baptist Health with a total of $79.2 million. The average loan size in the city was $276,036 while the state's average loan amount was $270,064.
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 | Baptist Memorial Hospital-Jonesboro, Inc. | $16,799,335 |
| 2 | St. Bernards Hospital, Inc. | $13,620,930 |
| 3 | Northeast Arkansas Clinic Charitable Foundation, Inc. | $2,189,468 |
| 4 | JBNC, Inc. | $847,851 |
| 5 | Outpatient Surgery Center of Jonesboro, LLC | $809,627 |
| 6 | Northeast Arkansas Community Mental Health Center, Inc. | $768,815 |
| 7 | Jonesboro Care and Rehabilitation Center, LLC | $746,991 |
| 8 | Charles Retina Institute, PC | $647,060 |
| 9 | St. Bernards Clinics, Inc. | $623,413 |
| 10 | Community Compassion Jonesboro | $584,172 |
| 11 | Craighead Nursing Center | $537,950 |
| 12 | Cardiology Associates of Jonesboro, Inc. | $508,179 |
| 13 | Arthritis and Rheumatism Associates, LLC | $479,972 |
| 14 | Arkansas Continued Care Hospital of Jonesboro, LLC | $460,631 |
| 15 | Delta Medical Group | $324,717 |
| 16 | Higginbotham Dental Group, PLLC | $286,138 |
| 17 | Lester Dierksen Memorial Hospice, LLC | $270,734 |
| 18 | Arkansas Home Hospice, LLC | $248,266 |
| 19 | Arkansas Home Health Providers-IV, LLC | $222,839 |
| 20 | Associated Radiologists, Ltd. | $205,492 |
| 21 | Randy D Roberts PA, M.D. | $202,422 |
| 22 | Surgical Associates of Jonesboro, Inc. | $176,700 |
| 23 | Dickson Orthopedics Pa | $176,483 |
| 24 | Focus, Inc. | $171,069 |
| 25 | Obgyn Associates of Jonesboro, Inc. | $165,986 |
| 26 | The Children's Clinic of Jonesboro, PA | $150,493 |
| 27 | First Step Arkansas, LLC | $147,738 |
| 28 | Southern Eye Associates, Ltd. | $145,680 |
| 29 | Jonesboro Anesthesia, Inc. | $143,834 |
| 30 | Novamed Surgery Center of Jonesboro, LLC | $125,957 |
| 31 | Cancer Care Associates, Inc. | $116,791 |
| 32 | Vision Care Center of NE Arkansas | $114,776 |
| 33 | USRC Colonial Heights, LLC | $99,751 |
| 34 | Otolaryngology & Facial Surgery Center | $92,678 |
| 35 | Renal Carepartners of Amarillo, LLC | $91,831 |
| 36 | Doctors' Anatomic Pathology Services, PA | $87,202 |
| 37 | Kidspot Learning Center, Inc. | $77,018 |
| 38 | Jonesboro Surgery Center, LLC | $73,010 |
| 39 | Extended Family Enterprises, Inc. | $65,370 |
| 40 | Plaza Drug, Inc. | $61,750 |
| 41 | Sills Dermatology, PLLC | $58,808 |
| 42 | Southern Home Healthcare, Inc. | $57,342 |
| 43 | St. Bernards Pet Center, LLC | $52,855 |
| 44 | Dan Johnson Phd Clinical Neuropsychologist P.A. | $50,265 |
| 45 | Kolin E. Weaver, MS, Inc., D.D.S. | $49,731 |
| 46 | Arkansas Dental Clinic, LLC | $47,027 |
| 47 | Sunil Gera P. A., M.D. | $45,494 |
| 48 | CJMH, LLC | $44,011 |
| 49 | Michael Parkey | $43,953 |
| 50 | Anthony W Bartels, D.D.S. | $41,966 |
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