The end of Affordable Care Act enhanced health insurance premiums will pose a financial challenge for many of the nation’s non-profit hospitals.
The challenge to hospitals will be greatest in states that did not take advantage of Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion and those with especially large concentrations of rural hospitals that also lack a robust health care safety net.
On safer ground will be hospitals in states that do have strong health care safety nets or that have taken recent steps to attempt to fill the void left by the expired insurance premium subsidies.
Learn more about the challenges different kinds of states and which states fall into these different categories from the Becker’s Hospital Review story “Nonprofit hospitals face credit headwinds as ACA subsidies expire: Fitch” and from the Fitch Ratings report on which that story is based.