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Study Links Hospital Health and Medicaid Expansion

January 8th, 2018 Jerry McElroy National News, News, Top of The Day

Published in Health Affairs this week, authors test a theory that Medicaid expansion prevents hospital closures.

Hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act were about six times less likely to close than hospitals in non-expansion states. In AHA Today, we learn Medicaid expansion was associated with improved hospital financial performance and substantially lower likelihoods of closure, especially in rural markets and counties with large numbers of uninsured adults before Medicaid expansion.

The authors conclude:

A policy that eliminates the Medicaid expansion without a corresponding adjustment in [disproportionate share hospital] payments or other subsidies will likely result in an increase in hospital closures, especially in rural areas. If patients do not have access to other hospitals, as is the case in many rural markets, access to health care will suffer, regardless of whether a person has health insurance.

Visit the Health Affairs abstract. A fee may apply to view the whole study.

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Jerry McElroy

Jerry McElroy worked for 35 years for Colorado’s largest integrated health care system that included an 800-member physician group. Twenty-eight of those years were spent doing government relations work for the organization. During that time, he was also closely involved with many different organizations with interests in health care and business issues such as the Colorado Association of Health Plans, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, the Colorado Competitive Council, Business Council for Healthcare Competition, and the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry. Jerry is known as one of the foremost experts on healthcare issues. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1975 with a degree of Physician Assistant in Medicine and worked in that field for seven years before moving to the area of government relations.

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