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{"E133FDCC-5056-A066-6040-1F81C75CDC46":{"TotalRows":1,"uid":"E133FDCC-5056-A066-6040-1F81C75CDC46","title":"Lewis County DSH Cuts ","summary":"Lowville, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"September 3, 2019","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/lewis-county-dsh-cuts-","city":"Lowville ","county":"Lewis","lat":43.7958676,"lng":-75.49918909999997,"description":"<p class=\"wordsection1\">On September 3,2019, standing at Lewis County General Hospital (LCGH),  the county’s largest employer, and flanked by advocates and public health experts, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer sounded the alarm on devastating cuts to the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program slated to go into effect this coming October. The Medicaid DSH program was designed to help hospitals that serve a high number of low-income and uninsured patients. As hospitals often receive either low reimbursement or no payment at all for treating those patients, the Medicaid DSH program helps provide hospitals with the financial flexibility to still offer world-class treatment to patients, regardless of who those patients are. Schumer explained that the Medicaid DSH program is set to be slashed by $4 billion on October 1<sup>st</sup>, 2019, which would cripple hospitals across the North Country, like LCGH, by severely restricting budgets and leading to the potential reduction of services and layoffs. Under the cuts, no state stands to lose more funding than New York, with projected losses of more than $7 billion over the next decade. Therefore, Schumer called on his colleagues in Congress to act immediately to stop the Medicaid DSH cuts, to ensure that LCGH and other hospitals across the region can continue providing first-rate care to all of their patients.</p>"}}

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