CMS Won’t Penalize Hospitals In States Slow To Expand Medicaid

Circle Connections: Policy & Regulatory Updates The Obama administration announced that for the next two years, it doesn't plan to penalize states that have yet to expand Medicaid coverage under the federal health law by targeting them for reduced Medicaid funding, according to a proposed rule unveiled by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Monday, May 13, 2013. The health law is funded in part by a gradual reduction in extra Medicaid payments, called disproportional share hospital, or DSH. Those payments help hospitals that care for a large proportion of poor patients who are covered by . . .