DSH Audit and SPA
Hospital Medicaid State Plan Amendment (SPA)2023
SPA 23-0019 IP Supplemental Payments Chronic Disease Hospital
SPA 23-0020 OP Supplemental Payments Financially Distressed
2022
SPA 22-0026 Chronic Disease Hospital Vent Bed Add-On
2021
SPA 21-0012 Private Psychiatric Hospitals Individuals under 22 and over 64 years of age
SPA 21-0025 Private Free-Standing Chronic Disease & Private Psychiatric Hospitals
SPA 21-0040 Pediatric Inpatient Psychiatric Services: Interim Rate Add-On and Discharge Delay
2020
SPA 20-001 Inpatient Hospital Reimbursement
SPA 20-002 Outpatient Hospital Reimbursement
SPA 20-0016 Technical Corrections to SPA 19-0017
SPA 20-0018 Inpatient Hospital Acute Per Diem Natchaug Hospital
2019
SPA 19-011 APR-DRG Grouper Changes for Inpatient Hospital Services
SPA 19-012 One-Time Supplemental Hospital Reimbursement
SFY19 DRG Grouper Supplemental Payment
SPA 19-017 Inpatient Hospital Reimbursement
SPA 19-018 Outpatient Hospital Reimbursement
2018
SPA 18-001 Inpatient Hospital Rate Increase and Mid-Sized Hospital Supplemental Payments
SPA 18-002 Outpatient Hospital Rate Increase and Supplemental Payments
SPA 18-017 Pay-for-Performance Inpatient Private Psychiatric Hospital Children Under Age 17
SPA 18-0018-A Disproportionate Share Claims for Public Acute Care Hospital Reimbursement
SPA 18-0022 Supplemental Payment Private Psychiatric Hospitals Individuals under 22 over 64-years of age
SPA 18-0027 Out-of-State and Border Hospital Reimbursement
2017
SPA 17-011 / 17-J Modernization of Inpatient Hospital Reimbursement Methodology
SPA 17-012 / 17-K Reimbursement Update Outpatient Hospital Services
SPA 17-021 Outpatient Supplemental Payments State-Owned Acute Care Hospitals
SPA 17-023 Inpatient Hospital Supplemental Payments
SPA 17-024 Inpatient Small Hospital Pool Supplemental Payments
2016
SPA 16-001 Inpatient Reimbursement to Acute Care Hospitals
SPA 16-008 Hospital Reimbursement for Long Acting Reversible Contraceptive
SPA 16-013 Inpatient Supplemental Payments to Acute Care Hospitals
SPA 16-0016A Modernization Outpatient Reimbursement Methodology
SPA 16-018 Supplemental Reimbursement for Inpatient Hospital Services
SPA 16-019 Inpatient Supplemental Reimbursement to Small Independent Hospitals
2015
SPA 15-003 Acute Care Hospitals – Modernization of Inpatient Reimbursement Methodology
SPA 15-018 Outpatient Hospital Services - Fixed Fees
SPA 15-034 Outpatient Hospital Services Electroconvulsive Therapy
SPA 15-042 Inpatient Supplemental Payments to Small Acute Care Hospitals
2014
SPA 14-010 Inpatient Hospital Rates
SPA 14-013 Provider-Based Status for Outpatient Children's Hospitals - Withdrawal Letter
SPA 14-032 Acute Care Hospital Rates - Merger of Danbury and New Milford Hospitals
SPA 14-035 Outpatient Hospital Group Counseling for Tobacco Cessation
2013
SPA 13-011 Elimination of Child Psychiatric Performance Pool
SPA 13-012 Inpatient Supplemental Payments
SPA 13-029 Inpatient Supplemental Payments
SPA 13-035 Inpatient Hospital Rates
SPA 13-037 Disproportionate Share Hospital
SPA 13-046 Chronic Disease Hospitals
2012
SPA 12-002 Inpatient Hospital Rate Meld
SPA 12-005 Outpatient Supplemental Payments
SPA 12-021 Yale Merger with Saint Raphael
2011
SPA 11-012 DSH Payments
SPA 11-013 Inpatient Supplemental Payments
SPA 11-031 Inpatient Hospital Rates
SPA 11-033 Payment Adjustment for Provider Preventable Conditions
Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Audit
Section 1923 of the Social Security Act, as amended, requires States to make additional Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments to hospitals that serve disproportionately large numbers of low-income patients. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 limits these payments to a hospital's uncompensated care costs, which are the annual costs incurred to provide services to Medicaid and uninsured patients less payments received for these patients. This limit is known as the hospital-specific DSH limit. In addition, a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) letter to State Medicaid Directors (1994 CMS letter) stated that the cost of services included in a hospital's DSH limit could not exceed the amount that would be allowable under Medicare principles of cost reimbursement.
New reporting and audit requirements (DSH Audit) were implemented in the December 19, 2008 Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital final rule (73 Federal Register 77904). The final rule implements Section 1001 of the Medicare Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, requiring State reports and audits to ensure the appropriate use of Medicaid DSH payments and compliance with the statutorily imposed hospital-specific limits.
On December 3, 2014, CMS issued the final rule that broadened the definition of DSH uncompensated care costs starting with the FFY 2011 audit. CMS ruled that the definition of uninsured care apply to services that may not be covered by individuals who do have insurance. Hospitals can include uncompensated care costs that are service-specific as part of the DSH payments. Federal Regulations of the Definition for DSH Uncompensated Care
DSH Audit Reports
2009 DSH Audit Report
2009 DSH Audit Numbers
2010 DSH Audit Report
2010 DSH Audit Numbers
2011 DSH Audit Report
2011 DSH Audit Numbers
2011 DSH Audit Report Addendum #1
2011 DSH Audit Numbers Addendum #1
2011 DSH Audit Report Addendum #2
2011 DSH Audit Numbers Addendum #2
2012 DSH Audit Report
2012 DSH Audit Numbers
2012 DSH Audit Report Addendum #1
2012 DSH Audit Numbers Addendum #1
2012 DSH Audit Report Addendum #2
2012 DSH Audit Numbers Addendum #2
2012 DSH Audit Report Addendum #3
2012 DSH Audit Numbers Addendum #3
2013 DSH Audit Report
2013 DSH Audit Numbers
2013 DSH Audit Report Addendum #1
2013 DSH Audit Numbers Addendum #1
2013 DSH Audit Report Addendum #2
2013 DSH Audit Numbers Addendum #2
2014 DSH Audit Report
2014 DSH Audit Numbers
2014 DSH Audit Report Addendum
2014 DSH Audit Numbers Addendum
2015 DSH Audit Report
2015 DSH Audit Numbers
2015 DSH Audit Report Addendum
2015 DSH Audit Numbers Addendum
2016 DSH Audit Report
2016 DSH Audit Numbers
2016 DSH Audit Report Addendum
2016 DSH Audit Numbers Addendum
2017 DSH Audit Report
2017 DSH Audit Numbers
2018 DSH Audit Report
2018 DSH Audit Numbers