The Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) program provides financial subsidies for hospitals serving low-income and uninsured patients and providing uncompensated care.
They find that up to 31.6 percent of Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments
have gone to hospitals that "demonstrated low orientation toward caring for low-income populations."
In their discussion, Chatterjee and coauthors describe opportunities to encourage states to better align targeting with goals of the DHS statute or revise applicable statute to better align with states’ priorities.
This series includes articles that reflect on and are inspired by a report of the same name released in June 2022 by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a National Public Health System. The series was developed and published with support from the Commonwealth Fund, a nonpartisan foundation.
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