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OIG reports on allowable Medicare capital DSH payments

By Medicare Weekly Update

OIG issues report on allowable Medicare capital disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments for the period October 1, 2000, through September 30, 2006

On November 7, the OIG issued a report on DSH capital payments for the period October 1, 2000, through September 30, 2006. The OIG found that a number of rural hospitals and hospitals with fewer than 100 beds claimed DSH capital payments during this period, even though those facilities were, according to Federal requirements, ineligible for these payments.

View the OIG report.