​Hospital Types & Programs

Acute Care Hospital facilities provides both inpatient and outpatient services, including emergency room services.

• Critical Access Hospital facilities may qualify as a critical access hospital if the facility meets other state and federal criteria.
• Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) means a clinically-similar grouping of services that can be expected to consume similar amounts of hospital resources

Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Program prior to billing a patient and submitting hospital service expenses to Medicaid as uncompensated, a hospital uses the Indigent Care Eligibility form to determine if the patient meets DSH guidelines.