AHA comments on proposed retroactive rulemaking on Medicare DSH policy
The AHA continues to oppose the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ policy to include Medicare Advantage patient days when calculating the Medicare fraction of a hospital’s disproportionate patient percentage for the Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital program, and objects to the agency’s Aug. 6 proposal to apply the policy retroactively, the association told the agency today.
The agency specifically proposes to make the policy retroactive to discharges before Oct. 1, 2013, despite a 2019 Supreme Court ruling that CMS must vacate the policy prior to that date. AHA urges CMS to exclude Medicare Advantage patient days from the Medicare fraction.
Related News Articles
Headline
AHA Dec. 6 voiced support for a provision in the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378) that would suspend for two years the Medicaid disproportionate…
Blog
More than 90 million people had access to health care through Medicaid’s pandemic-related continuous coverage provisions. That coverage ended March 31, 2023,…
Headline
AHA Aug. 9 called the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ $957 million cut to Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospitals for fiscal year 2024 “simply…
Headline
A bipartisan group of over 230 representatives urged House leaders to prevent $8 billion in cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital payments scheduled…
Headline
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) today approved four recommendations to Congress that would amend the Medicaid Disproportionate…
Headline
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday proposed changing how it calculates the Medicaid fraction for Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital…