KFF April 7, 2020
Cost of Their Care Could Use between 14% and 40% of the $100 Billion for Hospitals and Other Providers in CARES Act
Patients Could Still Be on the Hook for Outpatient Costs, Costs If They Test Negative, and Cost Sharing
A new KFF analysis estimates that between 670,000 and 2 million uninsured people around the country eventually could be hospitalized with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Reimbursing hospitals for those treatments could cost between $13.9 billion and $41.8 billion.
Trump administration has indicated that it plans to reimburse hospitals for the care of uninsured COVID-19 patients through the $100 billion fund authorized by Congress for hospitals and other health care entities as part...
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