As federal funds dry up, Texas hospitals are preparing to 'eat the cost' and pay for the treatment of uninsured COVID-19 patients.
in other countries. In the past, those surges abroad have always occurred before new cases rise again here in the United States, including Texas, which has more uninsured residents than any other state.in time to continue reimbursing providers means that hospitals, clinics, private practices and others that don’t get public health funding from the state will have to “eat the cost” if they don’t charge for COVID-related services, Scoggin said.
In Texas, providers have received some $1.8 billion for the treatment of uninsured COVID-19 patients, according to theTexas has the nation’s lowest rate of insurance coverage and is one of 11 states that have chosen not to expand Medicaid coverage to include more adults living in poverty.
An attempt by the White House to add billions more to the program has become a casualty of political arguments in Washington over the use of tax dollars to respond to the pandemic. “Whichever way providers respond, the result will likely be reduced access for uninsured patients in most states due to more limited provider access and/or potential out-of-pocket costs,” Kaiser health researchers said in a recentThe halting of the program hints that U.S.
Right now, there hasn’t been a patient hospitalized at Titus Regional with COVID in a week, Scoggin said.
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