Urge Congress to Eliminate Pending Medicaid DSH Payment Reductions

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ACTION NEEDED

Urge your U.S. representative to sign on to a bipartisan letter asking House leadership to prevent the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payment cuts scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2025.  

Find your U.S. representative’s contact information in this online directory.

TIMING

Contact your representatives before the Dec. 6 deadline to sign the bipartisan letter. 

The letter is led by Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL). Ask your representative to contact: 

RESOURCES

BACKGROUND

Reductions in Medicaid DSH payments to states are scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2025. If these cuts go into effect, California’s hospitals would lose $1.2 billion in 2025.

California’s hospitals rely on federal Medicaid DSH money to subsidize the cost of care for low-income, uninsured, and underinsured Californians — and to ensure their continued ability to provide the services needed by vulnerable communities.

These cuts were originally scheduled to take effect in 2014, but Congress has consistently blocked their implementation.