Medicaid Expansion and Safety-Net Hospitals

Economy boosts safety-net hospitals in states not expanding Medicaid, By Phil Galewitz, March 1, 2015, Washington Post: “Hospitals that treat many poor and uninsured patients were expected to face tough financial times in states that did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.  That’s because they would get less Medicare and Medicaid funding under the health-care law, while still having to provide high levels of charity care.  But in some of the largest states that did not expand Medicaid, many ‘safety net’ hospitals fared pretty well last year — better than in 2013 in many cases, according to their financial documents…”