Final Rule Issued on Medicare Advantage Days in the Calculation of a Hospital’s Medicare Disproportionate Patient Percentage

Final Rule Issued on Medicare Advantage Days in the Calculation of a Hospital’s Medicare Disproportionate Patient Percentage

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule to create a policy governing the treatment of days associated with beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) for the purposes of determining a hospital’s Medicare disproportionate patient percentage for discharges on or before October 1, 2013. The final rule intends to resolve any legal ambiguity surrounding the inclusion of MA… (Slifer, June 8, 2023) #Disproportionate Share Hospitals (DSH), #Medicare Advantage