April 2017

ACA Improved Hospital Financial Performance

Hospitals in states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act enjoyed improved financial performance, a new analysis has found. According to the report from the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and based on FY 2015 data, In states that expanded Medicaid through the ACA, hospitals had $5.0 million in increased Medicaid revenue and $3.2 million decreased uncompensated care costs, on average per hospital. Hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid through the ACA improved average operating margins by 2.5 percentage points. Small hospitals, for-profit and non-federal government-operated hospitals, and those in non-metropolitan areas saw the [...]

2017-04-06T06:00:32-04:00April 6, 2017|Affordable Care Act, hospitals|
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New County Health Rankings Published

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has published health rankings for every county in the country. Among the health or health-related factors for which the rankings provide data are: demographic information quality of life health factors percentage of population uninsured supply of health care providers and services socio-economic factors the physical environment Find the county health rankings here.

2017-04-04T06:00:10-04:00April 4, 2017|Uncategorized|
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To Require Work or Not to Require Work

That is the question policy-makers are asking as they consider imposing work requirements on healthy Medicaid participants. In recent years a number of states have attempted to establish such a requirement, only to have their requests to do so rejected by regulators in Washington, and a clause permitting states to establish such a requirement was included last month in the eventually sidetracked American Health Care Act.  Even now, a Kentucky Medicaid waiver application under consideration by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services includes a work requirement. Does the lack of a work requirement encourage people in Medicaid expansion states [...]

2017-04-03T06:00:50-04:00April 3, 2017|Medicaid|
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