States Refusing To Expand Medicaid Will Cost Hospitals Over 50 Billion Dollars

States Refusing To Expand Medicaid Will Cost Hospitals Over 50 Billion Dollars: According to new findings by the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (NAPH), by 2019, safety net hospitals’ uncompensated care costs will be $53 billion higher than originally estimated if states don’t opt into the voluntary expansion of the Medicaid program under Obamacare. Safety net hospitals serve areas where, on average, 14.9 percent [...]/p