{"id":7238,"date":"2017-06-27T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7238"},"modified":"2017-06-27T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T15:25:14","slug":"medicaid-expansion-had-a-close-to-zero-net-effect-on-nonprofit-hospital-finances-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7238","title":{"rendered":"Medicaid expansion had a &#8216;close to zero&#8217; net effect on nonprofit hospital finances, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While the ACA&#8217;s Medicaid expansion lowered uncompensated care costs for nonprofit hospitals, those savings were counteracted by Medicaid payment shortfalls, according to a recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/academyhealth.confex.com\/academyhealth\/2017arm\/meetingapp.cgi\/Paper\/16795\">report<\/a>\u00a0by Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan research institute AcademyHealth. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/medicaid-expansion-had-a-close-to-zero-net-effect-on-nonprofit-hospital-finances-report-finds.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) While the ACA&#8217;s Medicaid expansion lowered uncompensated care costs for nonprofit hospitals, those<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238","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=7238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7239,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions\/7239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}