DSH funds, which the Affordable Care Act mandated to be cut by $43 billion between fiscal 2018 and 2025, are meant to support hospitals that serve large numbers of Medicaid and uninsured patients.

DSH payments, which in 2009 reached $10.1 billion and $11.3 billion for Medicare and Medicaid respectfully, started as a way to compensate hospitals for what government officials believed were the ...

Hospitals are breathing a sigh of relief over the latest delay to $4 billion in DSH cuts this year. Now they’re hoping to coalesce around a more permanent fix.

Dive Insight: How DSH payments are calculated has been a hotly contested issue in recent years, landing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 and again in 2022.Most recently, the court ...

The plaintiff hospitals said that HHS' failure to recalculate DSH payments have cost them "tens of millions of dollars in funds that should have been paid to them many years ago." By Katie Adams ...

The ACA DSH cut for the 2021 fiscal year was $4 billion and increases to $8 billion from 2022 through 2025, according to the AHA.

With constant per-patient Medicare DSH and Medicaid DSH payments, disproportionately Black counties also demonstrated 2.5 and 2.3 percentage points more uninsured residents, 75.8 and 64.2 more ...

How the HHS pays out DSH reimbursements have become a contested issue in recent years, with some lawsuits going all the way to the nation’s highest court. The latest case, Advocate Christ ...