CMS has announced final federal share disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments for FY 2009 and the preliminary allotments for FY 2011.
The agency also announced related limitations on aggregate DSH payments that states may make to institutions for mental disease and other mental health facilities for those periods.
The notice provides background information on the methodology used to determine the state DSH allotments.
Debra McCurdy blogs regularly at Health Industry Washington Watch.