Hospitals In States That Expanded Medicaid Less Likely To Close
on Tue, 2018-01-09 14:53 Allison
The expansion of Medicaid helps rural hospitals stay afloat in states like Colorado, which added 400,000 people to the health insurance program under the Affordable Care Act.
Hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid were about 6 times less likely to close than hospitals in non-expansion states, according to a study by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
The study was published Monday in the January edition of the journal Health Affairs.
Links:
[1] http://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0976
[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/08/576448351/hospitals-in-states-that-expanded-medicaid-less-likely-to-close?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=59861527&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9jrMQLhpFadcm4T3rbMFWLt1RV1tN9V1fkOAjBhI6eA3c4THXYAVV3F0PmEJ02RvJ4cU1FEaPTHPgP9u-JEamaBk1wnQ&_hsmi=59861527