by keith | Apr 18, 2022 | DSH, Medicare, News and Updates
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its proposed inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) rule for fiscal year 2023, with changes that would impact reporting used to calculate Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments,...
by keith | Mar 16, 2022 | DSH, Medicaid, News and Updates
CMS published a Federal Register Notice on March 16, 2022 implementing a congressionally-mandated increase in Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) allotments for FYs 2020 and 2021 to account for the enhanced federal Medicaid matching rates during the public...
by keith | Mar 14, 2022 | DSH, Medicaid, News and Updates, Resources
The rules governing how to treat costs and revenues for hospital services provided to dually-eligible Medicaid patients for purposes of calculating the limit on Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments to a particular hospital have been repeatedly...
by keith | Dec 10, 2021 | DSH, Medicaid, News and Updates
In a State Medicaid Director Letter (SMDL) dated December 10, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance on how the agency will implement several Medicaid-related provisions from the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA). As...
by keith | Dec 27, 2020 | DSH, Medicaid, News and Updates
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA) contains two important changes impacting Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments. First, the CAA once again delays Medicaid DSH cuts mandated by the Affordable Care Act, extending $8 billion in annual...
by keith | Apr 20, 2020 | DSH, Litigation, News and Updates
On April 20, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit became the third appeals to court to reinstate CMS’ 2017 final rule requiring states to include Medicare and commercial payments in their Medicaid DSH limit calculations. The rule was recently...
