Supreme Court Rejects Medicare DSH Challenge
The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a lower court ruling that found that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services did not undercalculate hospitals’ Medicare disproportionate share payments between 2006 and 2009. In the suit, more than 200 hospitals argued that the calculation of Medicare DSH payments should be based on all hospitalized patients who qualify for both Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicare. The Supreme Court disagreed, confirming in a 7-2 decision the ruling of lower courts that SSI should only be included in DSH calculations when Medicare patients receive SSI payments during the same month they [...]