More than 75% of Tennessee’s rural hospitals are at high risk of closure in the next few years, according to the Tennessee Healthcare Campaign. The study explains the biggest problem in keeping rural hospitals open is many of the patients are uninsured or unable to pay.
Revenue projections have become so unreliably squirrelly that groups that rely on state funding are starting to push to get their fair share of what they see as a fast-growing pie.
Along with more pricing power, larger hospital systems are concentrating their financial wherewithal. So, even to the extent CON repeal would force them to face more competition, they ought to have the resources to survive.
Nonprofit hospitals are fighting Montana's attempt to boost oversight of the ways they claim they provide benefits to their communities in exchange for millions of dollars in tax breaks.