• Date Due: October 01, 2024
  • Author: Department of Medical Assistance Services
  • Enabling Authority: Appropriation Act - Item 292 GG. (Special Session I, 2024)
  • Description:
    Report on the findings and recommendations of the work group convened to evaluate the criteria for hospitals to qualify for disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments, and shall evaluate current DSH criteria, including the Medicaid inpatient utilization rate, to determine changes that are necessary to reflect the impact from the Commonwealth's expansion of Medicaid in 2019, and shall recommend a new Medicaid inpatient utilization threshold to qualify for DSH payments to ensure that those hospitals with the largest uncompensated care costs are receiving appropriate DSH payments.