Financial pressures cause rural hospitals to close
Since 2010, 48 rural hospitals have closed, while hundreds more face financial pressures, Kaiser Health News reports.
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, hospitals have seen their federal reimbursement decline. They have also had decreases in payments for the uninsured.
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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.