Thursday, April 30, 2015

Funny how that works


That being the financial health of hospitals in states that accepted the new Medicaid eligibility of the ACA, also known as Obamacare. Reducing the number of uncompensated patients greatly reduces the burden on hospitals and actually allows them to provide better care.
In states that expanded eligibility for Medicaid, hospitals that handle large numbers of low-income patients are faring better under the Affordable Care Act than those in states that haven't, according to two new reports released Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The findings suggest that the health law, in states where it's fully implemented, is helping hospitals cut their uncompensated care costs, see fewer uninsured patients and increase their revenue from Medicaid, the state/federal health plan for the poor.

One study looked at the experiences of Ascension Health, a non-profit Catholic health system with 131 hospitals in 16 states and the District of Columbia.

Kaiser researchers found that Ascension hospitals in Medicaid-expansion states saw a 32-percent decline in visits by uninsured patients compared to just a 4-percent decline at their hospitals in non-expansion states.

In addition, Ascension's charity care costs fell by 40 percent at their hospitals in expansion states compared to just a 6-percent decline at their facilities in non-expansion states.

More patients with Medicaid coverage appears to be the reason that Ascension's expansion-state facilities fared better.
But you know, Obama bad, must repeal. Amirite?

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