{"id":20405,"date":"2022-10-25T08:07:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T12:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20405"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T12:07:06","slug":"hospitals-said-they-lost-money-on-medicare-patients-some-made-millions-a-state-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20405","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals Said They Lost Money on Medicare Patients. Some Made Millions, a State Report Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Fred Clasen-Kelly for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2014 Atrium Health, the largest hospital system in North Carolina, has declared publicly that in 2019 it provided $640 million in services to Medicare patients that were never paid for, by far the largest \u201ccommunity benefit\u201d it provided that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like other nonprofit hospitals around the nation, Atrium logs losses on the federal health insurance program for seniors and people with disabilities as a community benefit to satisfy legal requirements for federal, state, and local tax breaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for the same year that Atrium\u2019s website says it recorded the $640 million loss on Medicare, the hospital system claimed $82 million in profits from Medicare and an additional $37.2 million in profits from Medicare Advantage in a federally required financial document, according to a report released Oct. 25 by the North Carolina state treasurer\u2019s office.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/north-carolina-hospitals-medicare-report\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/north-carolina-hospitals-medicare-report\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Fred Clasen-Kelly for Kaiser Health News) CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2014 Atrium Health, the largest hospital system in North Carolina, has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,9],"tags":[196,61,62,138],"class_list":["post-20405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","tag-community-benefit","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-nonprofit-hospitals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20406,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20405\/revisions\/20406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}