Distribution of DSTI Funds among Hospitals Sample Clauses

Distribution of DSTI Funds among Hospitals. Attachment I specifies the hospitals eligible for DSTI over the demonstration approval period and outlines available DSTI funds for participating providers to earn through DSTI incentive payments for SFY 2015 - 2017. The master DSTI plan, and payment and funding protocol, as outlined in STC 52, must specify the DSTI incentive payment formula and denote the total annual amount of DSTI incentive payments each participating hospital may be eligible for based upon the projects and metrics it selects. The incentive payment formula must identify per metric the following: (1) the annual base amount of funding per metric associated with the each category pursuant to STC 50(d)(4); (2) increases to that base amount associated with a hospital’s proportional annual DSTI allowance; and

Distribution of DSTI Funds among Hospitals. Attachment I specifies the hospitals eligible for DSTI over the Demonstration approval period and outlines the initial proportional allowance of available DSTI funds for participating providers to earn through DSTI incentive payments for SFY2012-2014. This initial proportional allowance is based upon a foundational amount of funding of $4 million for each hospital over the demonstration approval period that is necessary for hospitals to undertake transformation initiatives, regardless of hospital size. Beyond this foundational amount, the initial allotment of available funds is based on the relative size of each hospital’s Medicaid and low-income public payer patient population, as measured by each hospital’s patient services charges as indicated in the Medicaid and Low-Income Public Payer Gross Patient Services Revenue (GPSR), published in the SFY 2009 Massachusetts 403 acute hospital cost reports filed with the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy. “Public payers” in this instance include Medicaid, Medicaid managed care, Commonwealth Care and the Health Safety Net. The public payers and base year data are consistent with the eligibility criteria for participating providers. The final master DSTI plan, and payment and funding protocol, as outlined in STC 52, must specify the DSTI incentive payment formula and denote the total annual amount of DSTI incentive payments each participating hospital may be eligible for based upon the projects and metrics it selects. The incentive payment formula must identify per metric the following: (1) the annual base amount of funding per metric associated with the each category pursuant to STC 49(e)(4);