DSH payments, which go to hospitals that serve a significantly disproportionate number of poor patients, will take major hits between fiscal year 2014 and FY 2020. In total, hospitals will lose $18.1 billion in DSH payments in a mostly back-loaded cut strategy. Here are the aggregate reductions in DSH allotments for all states over that seven year span:
FY 2014: $500 million
FY 2015: $600 million
FY 2016: $600 million
FY 2017: $1.8 billion
FY 2018: $5 billion
FY 2019: $5.6 billion
FY 2020: $4 billion
In 2009 and 2010, hospitals actually saw increases in Medicaid DSH payments thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Medicaid DSH payments cumulatively total $11.34 billion every year.
More Articles on DSH Payments:
GAO: Medicaid Supplemental Payments to Hospitals Jumped by $9B
Reorganizing the Healthcare Buffet Line: Q&A With Scripps Health CFO Rich Rothberger
Medicaid Expansion Concerns Amid Looming DSH Cuts: Q&A With NAPH CEO Bruce Siegel
