Uncompensated Care news and information

The CMS on Friday released a final rule that lays out the methodology to reduce Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital payments for fiscal years 2014 and 2015.
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Hospital executives are watching to see whether the net financial gains from next year's coverage expansion under the reform law surpass losses from the law's looming reimbursement cuts.
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An independent study released today on the economic impact of Medicaid expansion under healthcare reform found that states' share of the cost of expanding Medicaid under reform would be lower than the cost of providing uncompensated care to their uninsured residents.
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The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate passed a state budget that includes expansion of the state Medicaid program.
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The Obama administration issued the rules Monday to carry out a major hospital Medicaid cut, even as it is trying to delay the reduction scheduled to begin in five months.
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New Medicaid research that garnered widespread attention from national health policy experts has not yet affected the expansion debate at the state level, but it could bolster national policy changes in the program.
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As healthcare providers and analysts continue to digest more than 1,400 pages of the CMS' recent inpatient prospective payment proposed rule, they are analyzing how the agency would implement a new payment methodology for Medicare disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) payments next year.
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Health Management Associates, Naples, Fla., is facing a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission, potentially related to its billing and accounting practices.
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Pittsburgh's mayor said UPMC should pay property and payroll taxes because the hospital operator fails to meet state criteria for tax exemption.
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Hospitals in states that elect not to expand their Medicaid programs could find their bottom lines squeezed in coming years as they're hit with higher charity-care costs and fewer insured patients.
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