Medicare DSH
AHA letter to Congressional leaders requesting a delay the start of the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital cuts, scheduled to begin in fiscal year (FY) 2020.
AHA to MACPAC Re: Proposed Changes to the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Program Allotment
AHA comments on the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission’s proposed recommendations related to the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced states’ final disproportionate share hospital allotments for fiscal year 2016 and their preliminary DSH allotments for FY 2018.
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ hospital inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2019.
- Medicare
- Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS)
- Medicare DSH
- Electronic Health Records (EHRs) - Meaningful Use
- Health Information Technology (HIT)
- Interoperability
- Medicare Area Wage Index (AWI)
- Hospital Readmission Reduction Program
- Value-based payment
- Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program
- Electronic Clinical Quality Measures
- Quality & Patient Safety
- Quality Measures
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.