June 9, 2009
Revised Rural Health Fact Sheets
The following publications are now available in downloadable format from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medicare Learning Network:
- The revised Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital Fact Sheet (April 2009), which provides information about methods to qualify for the Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) adjustment; Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 and Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 provisions that impact Medicare DSHs; number of beds in hospital determination; and Medicare DSH payment adjustment formulas, can be accessed at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/2009_mdsh.pdf.
- The revised Critical Access Hospital Fact Sheet (April 2009), which provides information about eligible Critical Access Hospital (CAH) providers; CAH designation; CAH payments; reasonable cost payment principles that do not apply to CAHs; election of Standard Payment Method or Optional (Elective) Payment Method; Medicare Rural Pass-Through funding for certain anesthesia services; Health Professional Shortage Area Incentive payments; Physician Scarcity Area Bonus payments; Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 provisions that impact Critical Access Hospitals; and grants to states under the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program, can be accessed at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/CritAccessHospfctsht.pdf.
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