Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Kennedy, Docket No. 23-715

The Court held that in calculating the Medicare fraction for the disproportionate share hospital (DSH) adjustment, an individual is "entitled to supplementary security income benefits" only when they are eligible to receive an SSI cash payment during the month of their hospitalization. This interpretation affects how hospitals are reimbursed for treating low-income Medicare patients, as it determines which patients are counted in the numerator of the Medicare fraction used to calculate additional funding.music for the podcast provided by ⁠ Dimitry Taras