Projecting Hospitals’ Profit Margins Under Several Illustrative Scenarios: Working Paper 2016-04

Tamara Hayford, Lyle Nelson and Alexia Diorio

No 51919, Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: Changes stemming largely from implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could affect hospitals’ finances significantly. Although the ACA reduces Medicare’s payment updates for hospitals, it also expands insurance coverage, which should reduce hospitals’ costs for uncompensated care. To examine the effects of those and other provisions of federal law, this paper calculates hospitals’ profit margins and the share of hospitals that might lose money in 2025 under several illustrative scenarios. The analysis focuses on about 3,000 hospitals that provide acute care and are

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Date: 2016-09-08
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