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Medicaid: States' Use and Distribution of Supplemental Payments to Hospitals

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 19, 2019
Release Date July 29, 2019
Report No. GAO-19-603
Summary:

Medicaid spent over $177 billion on hospital care in fiscal year 2017. A quarter of these payments were supplemental payments—lump sum payments that are not tied to a specific patient's care.

Disproportionate share hospital payments are one type of supplemental payment. To help offset the costs for hospital services, these payments are given to hospitals that serve a high proportion of Medicaid and uninsured patients.

We found that these payments covered 51% of the costs of uncompensated care at hospitals receiving payments nationwide.

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