A newly updated report shows that fewer Mississippi rural hospitals are at near-term or immediate risk of closure than they were three months ago. But the leader of the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, the organization behind the report, warns that Mississippi is by no means out of the danger zone.
A hospital spokeswoman said the recent decline in charity care coincided with an expansion in Virginia’s Medicaid program, a government health insurance program that serves mainly the very poor.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - More than a dozen Alabama hospitals are at an immediate risk of closing as state health leaders report facilities lost more than $700 million in 2022.
More than 400 patients are stuck in Oregon hospital beds unnecessarily who can’t be discharged and don’t generate revenue, and now hospitals are asking the Legislature for financial relief.