Examples of Uninsured Cost in a sentence
Using the most current Medicaid DSH Audit submitted to CMS that overlaps the LIP Cost reporting period, the State will calculate the percentage of charity care costs (from Worksheet S-10, Line 21, column 1, for the cost report periods overlapping the DSH audit year) to total Medicaid DSH Audit Inpatient/Outpatient Uninsured Cost of Care associated with each Medicaid DSH facility.
Uninsured cost: Uninsured Cost is the cost to provide services to uninsured patients as defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Cohen, “Medicaid High Medicaid and the Uninsured Cost Enrollees, How Much do they Drive Program Spending,” KCMU, March 2006.Risk adjustment could help states temper this mismatch.
Using the Medicaid DSH Audit which aligns with the LIP cost reporting period, the State will calculate the percentage of charity care costs (from LIP cost limit form) to total Medicaid DSH Audit Inpatient/Outpatient Uninsured Cost of Care associated with each Medicaid DSH facility.
The DSH Supplemental Payment for qualified hospitals equals the lesser of eachhospital’s DSH limit and each hospital’s Uninsured Costs as a percentage of total Uninsured Cost for all qualified hospitals multiplied by the DSH Allotment in total.