消除医疗保险不良债务支付:临界接入和农村医院是否处于风险之中?
Dunc Williams1, Ganisher Davlyatov2, John R Bowblis3
1Healthcare Financial Management, College of Health Professions, Department of Health Care Leadership and Management, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
消除医疗保险允许的不良债务 (MBD) 偿还可能会对农村医院产生负面影响,特别是关键接入医院 (CAH),可能会降低他们的总利率并危及财务偿付能力.
科学领域:
- 卫生经济学 卫生经济学
- 医疗保健政策 医疗保健政策
- 医院财务管理 医院财务管理
背景情况:
- 医疗保险允许的不良债务 (MBD) 是对医院的未付款患者财务义务的部分偿还.
- 在2022年,MBD占患者收入的0.12%,总额为17亿美元的退款.
- 最近的立法并没有消除MBD,但拟议的消除需要了解其财务影响.
研究的目的:
- 分析消除医疗保险可允许的不良债务 (MBD) 偿还对不同类型医院的潜在财务影响.
- 确定特定的医院类别,州和地区最容易受到MBD消除的影响.
主要方法:
- 从2022年起使用医疗保险成本报告对短期一般急性护理医院进行了回顾性纵向分析.
- 医院总利率的评估,有或没有MBD退款.
- 根据临界接入医院 (CAH) 状态,农村地区,州和医院推区域 (HRR) 的分析分层.
主要成果:
- 取消MBD退款将对许多医院产生负面影响.
- 临界接入医院 (CAH) 面临着最严重的影响,总利率可能减少0.3%点.
- 其他农村医院,内华达州和阿巴拉契亚和德克萨斯州的特定HRR也将经历显著的利率下降.
结论:
- 消除MBD退款可能会进一步威胁农村医院的财务稳定性,特别是那些为服务不足的社区提供服务的医院.
- 这些发现强调了MBD对关键农村医疗保健提供者的财务偿付能力的重要性.
- 决策者在评估MBD政策变化时,应该考虑对农村和CAH设施的不成比例影响.
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