Grassley Reasserts Call To Stop Delaying Medicaid DSH Cuts, Fix Pay

Senate Finance Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reiterated his position that Congress should not further postpone scheduled cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital payments and should instead revise the payment system. “Kicking the DSH payments can down the road for another country mile will drive us into the fiscal ditch,” Grassley wrote in an op-ed in Stat on Thursday (April 4). He argued the DSH funding formula should be revised to make it fairer, though he offered no details about...