title: An evolving DSH payment.
abstract: Updates to the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) will change disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments for coming fiscal years. In FY17, changes to the calculation of Factor 2 will lower the uncompensated care DSH available for allocation. In FY18, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin using uncompensated care expenses to determine a hospital's share of payments from the uncompensated care DSH pool.
authors.forename: Chad
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mulvany
mesh_terms: D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D017664:Uncompensated Care; D014481:United States