Becker's Healthcare January 5, 2021
Whether states decided to expand Medicaid has important implications for hospitals’ finances and their ability to weather the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published Jan. 5 in Health Affairs.
For the study, researchers from the Urban Institute, a liberal-leaning policy research center in Washington, D.C., used data from the American Hospital Association and CMS to analyze how Medicaid expansion affected hospitals’ finances.
The researchers studied changes in hospital finances from 2011-17, with 2011-13 denoted as the “pre-period” before Medicaid expansion took effect. Hospitals were stratified by characteristics like location, ownership, size and safety-net status.
Hospitals in 25 states that expanded Medicaid and 19 nonexpansion states were included in the analysis. As of Jan. 5, 2021, 38...
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