{"id":198,"date":"2021-01-07T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T11:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthplan.distilinfo.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2022-02-24T09:28:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T09:28:18","slug":"medicaid-could-assist-hospitals-financially-to-recover-from-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/medicaid-could-assist-hospitals-financially-to-recover-from-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicaid Could Assist Hospitals Financially to Recover from the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid have benefited from declining uncompensated care costs and increased Medicaid revenue during the years from 2013 to 2017, a cushion that could put them in a better position to financially recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"highlights wp-block-list\"><li>Medicaid revenue remained mostly unchanged. Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have expanded Medicaid while 12 states have not.<\/li><li>For hospitals in non-expansion states, uncompensated care costs rose during the same period.<\/li><li>Mean operating margins declined in both expansion and non-expansion states in 2016 and 2017. But, those in expansion states faced slightly higher decreases.<\/li><li>Research from June found rural hospitals, in particular, performed better in expansion states. The financial benefits of the hospitals have been seen from Medicaid expansion.<\/li><li>From 2013 to 2017, mean annual uncompensated care costs as a share of total expenses declined by 1.8 percentage points for hospitals in expansion states. For hospitals in non-expansion states, those costs rose 0.5 percentage points.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid have benefited from declining uncompensated care costs and increased Medicaid revenue during the years&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/medicaid-could-assist-hospitals-financially-to-recover-from-the-pandemic\/\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Continue Reading <i class=\"fas fa-long-arrow-alt-right\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-distilinfo-originals","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}