Medicare DSH
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) April 24 released its fiscal year (FY) 2019 proposed rule for the hospital inpatient and long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment systems (PPS). A detailed summary of the proposed rule follows in the Regulatory Advisory below.
AHA has created a Medicare operating DSH calculator for hospital leaders to estimate hospitals’ operating DSH payments – both the empirical portion as well as the uncompensated care payment amounts. The calculator is designed so that you enter your hospital's CMS Certification Number; the…
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia this week voided a CMS rule regarding how third-party payments are treated for purposes of calculating the hospital-specific limitation on Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments.
We are pleased to support Senator Roger Wicker's (R-MS) bill, S. 1555, to delay for two years funding cuts to the Medicare and Medicaid Disproportionate Share (DSH) programs.
We continue to believe that both Medicaid and Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) cuts should be delayed for two years in order to better ascertain whether coverage expansions have been implemented.
We are pleased to support the DSH Reduction Relief Act of 2013 introduced today by Rep. John Lewis (D-GA).