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Sep 01, 2023

How To Reduce Medical Debt: 5 Tips For Using Charity In The Hospital

What if a law is passed but nobody enforced it? This is essentially what happened to a small but helpful rule about hospitals and financial assistance for medical bills. The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, requires nonprofit hospitals to provide financial assistance to low-income patients and to post these guidelines online. In the […]

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Oct 28, 2021Nov 04, 2023

Medicare fines 2,499 hospitals for high readmissions

Federal government efforts to penalize hospitals for excessive patient readmissions end their first decade with Medicare cutting payments to nearly half of the country’s hospitals. In its tenth annual penalty loop, Medicare is reducing payments to 2,499 hospitals, or 47% of all facilities. The average penalty is a 0.64% cut in payment for each Medicare […]

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