SC-23-0018
This amendment updates methods and standards for establishing Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments to qualifying DSH hospitals using the base year cost reporting period ending Fiscal Year 2022 to calculate interim DSH payments for the October 1, 2023, through September 30,2024, DSH payment period, and updating the inflation rate used to trend DSH base year cost to the end of the 2022 calendar year. The SPA also updates inpatient hospital swing bed and administrative day rates based upon the October 1, 2023, redetermination of nursing facility payment rates.