Safety-net hospitals perform well financially even without Medicaid expansion
Safety-net hospitals in several states that did not expand Medicaid still performed well financially last year, Kaiser Health News reports.
The analysis found an improving economy and an increase in the number of insured people. However, safety-net hospitals that serve a disproportionate of poor people will see a significant decrease in Medicaid funding starting in October 2016.
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.