Under Trump, Hospitals Face Same Penalties Embraced By Obama

Under Trump, Hospitals Face Same Penalties Embraced By Obama-kaiser: Amid all the turbulence over the future of the Affordable Care Act, one facet continues unchanged: President Donald Trump’s administration is penalizing more than half the nation’s hospitals for having too many patients return within a month.

Bad Debt Is the Pain Hospitals Can't Heal as Patients Don't Pay

Bad Debt Is the Pain Hospitals Can't Heal as Patients Don't Pay-bloomberg: A type of pain that hospitals thought they had relieved has come back with a vengeance: it’s called bad debt. Hospitals have long struggled to collect bills when patients aren’t covered by insurance -- creating delinquent accounts. The Affordable Care Act was supposed to relieve some of that strain by helping pay for coverage for millions of Americans and expanding Medicaid in some states to cover the poor.

Congress May Speed Overhaul of Payments for Post-Hospital Care

Congress May Speed Overhaul of Payments for Post-Hospital Care-rollcall: Health providers who care for discharged hospital patients are bracing for changes to government payment policies that could come sooner than expected as Congress looks for billions of dollars in estimated savings.

South L.A.'s MLK hospital will reopen with a new healthcare outlook

South L.A.'s MLK hospital will reopen with a new healthcare outlook-latimes: How do you build a hospital for the era of Obamacare? The LA Times takes a look at how a new hospital in South L.A. answers that question.