CMS Medicaid Supplemental Payment Reporting Requirements and Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Shortfall Calculations under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

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Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a State Medicaid Director Letter (SMDL) to help states understand the new requirements related to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA), which established new requirements for state Medicaid programs, including new reporting requirements for non-Disproportionate Share Hospitals (DSH) supplemental payments, and a change in the methodology for calculating the hospital-specific DSH limit. 

Learn more here: https://www.medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/smd21006.pdf