Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments

December 18, 2012
In December 2012, the Congressional Research Institute released a report that provides an overview of Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments. The report describes the rules delineating how state DSH allotments are calculated and the exceptions to the rules, how DSH hospitals are defined, and how DSH payments are calculated. The DSH allotment section includes information about how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) DSH reductions may be allocated among the states, and the possible implications of the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the ACA Medicaid expansion. The DSH expenditures section shows the trends in DSH spending and . . .