Health Care

Disproportionate Share Reimbursement

Payments that include adjustments to reflect the costs of uncompensated care and higher costs for inpatient care for certain populations receiving mandated services. MEDICARE and MEDICAID include provisions for this type of reimbursement.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Payments that include adjustments to reflect the costs of uncompensated care and higher costs for inpatient care for certain populations receiving mandated services. MEDICARE and MEDICAID include provisions for this type of reimbursement.

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Synonyms

9 entry terms
  • Disproportionate Reimbursement
  • Reimbursement, Disproportionate Share
  • Disproportionate Reimbursements
  • Disproportionate Share Reimbursements
  • Reimbursement, Disproportionate
  • Reimbursements, Disproportionate
  • Reimbursements, Disproportionate Share
  • Share Reimbursement, Disproportionate
  • Share Reimbursements, Disproportionate

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

specify geog

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History Note

1999

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. N03w.219w.521.710.305.290

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Disproportionate Share Reimbursement. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D020444. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D020444
  2. Disproportionate Share Reimbursement. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70372961