News Briefs: Year-end spending bill ensures no loss of funding for Medicaid DSH payments

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News Briefs: Year-end spending bill ensures no loss of funding for Medicaid DSH payments

Year-end spending bill ensures no loss of funding for Medicaid DSH payments. The continuing resolution (CR) to keep the federal government funded through mid-March includes key healthcare provisions. Passed Dec. 20 as essentially the last act of the 118th Congress, the CR ensured an $8 billion cut to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments did not begin with the new year as scheduled. In Medicare, the bill extends supplemental pa…