(6.) The federal
disproportionate share hospital program provides funding to hospitals to partially cover the costs of treating indigent patients.
The Medicaid
Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program is a major funding source for safety-net hospitals and provides funding to support free and discounted care for uninsured and Medicaid patients.
The funds were connected with the
Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payment program.
DSH CUTS: Another important factor for Missouri is that the new law would reduce
Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments to the state for uninsured patients.
In an additional item related to federal government reimbursement, Tenet said it expects to record a $2 million unfavorable Medicare
disproportionate share hospital Supplemental Security Income (SSI) adjustment in the quarter ended March 31, 2012 related to CMS's recently released SSI ratios.
These are cost variations beyond each hospital's control and include an index to reflect local wage levels for hospital labor, an index to reflect higher costs of living (COLA) in Alaska and Hawaii, and a payment add-on for being a teaching hospital (indirect medical education or IME), for providing a disproportionate share of care to low income patients (
disproportionate share hospital or DSH), or for treating cases with extraordinary costs (outliers).
Medicare and
disproportionate share hospital payments are expected to be reduced by $121.5 billion and $36.1 billion, respectively, on an annual basis.
Transplant hospitals will be hard-pressed by Medicare payment reductions and lowered
Disproportionate Share Hospital payments for uninsured care.
These supplemental payments are referred to as
disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments.
19, which sets forth the data elements necessary to comply with the requirements of Section 1923 (j) of the Social Security Act (Act) related to auditing and reporting
disproportionate share hospital payments under State Medicaid programs.
A small percentage of this amount is covered by philanthropy and
disproportionate share hospital payments (payments intended to offset losses hospitals incur when large shares of their patients are unable to pay their hospital bills).