Safety Net Hospitals: Cassidy-Graham Doesn't Offer Systemic Relief From DSH Cuts

America's Essential Hospitals says the so-called Cassidy-Graham health overhaul bill provides no systemic relief from Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital payment cuts, and the DSH provisions that are in the bill don't balance out the higher uncompensated care costs created by the bill's Medicaid per-capita caps or block grants. “Unlike the AHCA and BCRA, which sought to offset projected increases in uncompensated care by restoring Medicaid DSH allotments, Graham-Cassidy provides DSH relief as a mechanism to offset inequities in the bill's...