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DPW Issues DSH and Supplemental Payment Allocation Notice

The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DSH) has published a notice “announcing its intent to allocate funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012-2013 for several disproportionate share hospital (DSH) and supplemental hospital payments made to qualifying Medical Assistance (MA) enrolled hospitals.”
Among the allocations addressed in this notice are funds for inpatient disproportionate share payments (inpatient DSH), outpatient DSH payments, direct medical education (DME) payments, Medical Assistance stability payments, Medical Assistance dependency payments, Medical Assistance rehab adjustment payments, small and sole-community hospital payments, and enhanced outpatient DSH payments for selected providers.
Find the complete Pennsylvania Bulletin notice here .

PA Safety Net Admin2012-09-26T06:00:28+00:00September 26th, 2012|Medicaid supplemental payments, Pennsylvania Bulletin, Pennsylvania Medicaid laws and regulations, Pennsylvania Medicaid policy|Comments Off

DPW Issues DSH Notice

The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW) has published a notice “announcing its intent to allocate funding for several classes of disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments made to qualifying Medical Assistance (MA) enrolled acute care general hospitals.” These allocations include funding for FY 2013 critical access, OB/NICU, trauma, burn center, academic medical center, and other supplemental DSH payments.
Find the complete Pennsylvania Bulletin notice here .

PA Safety Net Admin2012-09-25T06:00:18+00:00September 25th, 2012|Medicaid supplemental payments, Meetings and notices, Pennsylvania Bulletin, Pennsylvania Medicaid laws and regulations, Pennsylvania Medicaid policy|Comments Off

DPW Issues Medical Assistance Bulletins

The Department of Public Welfare (DPW) has issued a number of new bulletins governing Pennsylvania’s Medical Assistance program.
These new regulations include an amendment to the state’s Medicaid plan for children with disabilities; the process for prior authorization of pituitary suppressive drugs; the process for prior authorization of erythropoiesis stimulating protein; the process for prior authorization of benign prostatic hyperplasia treatments; the process for prior authorization of antibiotics (GI); and the process for the prior authorization of platelet aggregation inhibitors.
In addition, DPW formally announced the expansion of HealthChoices to 13 counties in western Pennsylvania and the termination of ACCESS Plus in those counties effective October 1 and its intention to publish in the near future a new bulletin adding growth factors to the Medical Assistance program’s list of items requiring prior authorization.

PA Safety Net Admin2012-08-27T06:00:55+00:00August 27th, 2012|Meetings and notices, Pennsylvania Bulletin, Pennsylvania Medicaid laws and regulations, Pennsylvania Medicaid policy|Comments Off

PA Releases DSH Eligibility Lists

The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW) has released its annual list of inpatient hospitals that qualify for Medical Assistance disproportionate share (DSH) payments, including the DSH percentages for acute-care general hospitals, psychiatric units of inpatient hospitals, drug and alcohol units of inpatient hospitals, medical rehab units of inpatient hospitals, freestanding rehab hospitals, private psychiatric hospitals, and private drug and alcohol hospitals.
Find the list and the corresponding DSH percentages in this Pennsylvania Bulletin notice .

PA Safety Net Admin2012-08-23T06:00:56+00:00August 23rd, 2012|Pennsylvania Bulletin, Pennsylvania Medicaid laws and regulations, Pennsylvania Medicaid policy|Comments Off

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