RD253 - Report on Item 297. JJ of the 2011 Appropriation Act related to the Virginia Coordinated Care for the Uninsured Program


Executive Summary:
Status of waiver request from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to permit use of Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) funds to allow the VCUHS (Hospital and Physician Practice) to continue the existing partnership with community physicians and with any community hospitals who are providing less costly health care services to eligible indigent patients for VCUHS.