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B-330390


October 4, 2018

The Honorable Orrin G. Hatch
Chairman
The Honorable Ron Wyden
Ranking Member
Committee on Finance
United States Senate

The Honorable Greg Walden
Chairman
The Honorable Frank Pallone, Jr.
Ranking Member
Committee on Energy and Commerce
House of Representatives

The Honorable Kevin Brady
Chairman
The Honorable Richard Neal
Ranking Member
Committee on Ways and Means
House of Representatives

Subject: Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
        Services: Medicaid Program; Final FY 2016 and Preliminary FY 2018 Disproportionate
        Share Hospital Allotments, and Final FY 2016 and Preliminary FY 2018 Institutions for
        Mental Diseases Disproportionate Share Hospital Limits

Pursuant to section 801 (a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code, this is our report on a major rule
promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS) entitled Medicaid Program; Final FY 2016 and Preliminary FY 2018
Disproportionate Share Hospital Allotments, and Final FY 2016 and Preliminary FY 2018
Institutions for Mental Diseases Disproportionate Share Hospital Limits (RIN: 0938-ZB48). We
received the rule on September 21, 2018. It was published in the Federal Register as a notice
on July 6, 2018. 83 Fed. Reg. 31,536. The effective date of the notice is August 6, 2018.

The notice announces the final federal share disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments
for federal fiscal year (FY) 2016 and the preliminary federal share DSH allotments for FY 2018.
This notice also announces the final FY 2016 and the preliminary FY 2018 limitations on
aggregate DSH payments that states may make to institutions for mental disease and other
mental health facilities. In addition, the rule includes background information describing the
methodology for determining the amounts of states' fiscal year DSH allotments.

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