Federal appeals court upholds DSH payment rule

Modern Healthcare: A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the CMS can include Medicare and commercial payments in a hospital's disproportionate-share payment limit calculation, a move that would lower supplemental payments to hospitals that care for low-income and uninsured people.

The three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found that the CMS acted within its rights when it created the 2017 rule, overturning a lower-court decision.

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