U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, joined by Sean M. Fadale, President and CEO of Nathan Littauer Hospital, sounded the alarm on devastating cuts to the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program slated to go into effect at the end of this month, that are expected to cost New York Hospitals billions of dollars, and called on Congress to kill the cuts.
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Senate Minority Leader Schumer calls for reversal of devastating hospital cuts
By The Troy Record
| November 24, 2020
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