Congressional Leaders Urged to Prevent Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Cuts

A bipartisan group of 51 senators, led by Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and James Lankford, R-Okla., this week urged Senate leaders to avert $8 billion in annual payment cuts to the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program, which are scheduled to begin Oct. 1 and continue for four years.

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