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ZeroHedge
11 Feb 2023
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By Andrew Cass of Becker's Hosptial Review
With the end of pandemic-era relief programs, the rural health safety net is under renewed pressure, according to a Feb. 7 report from healthcare advisory firm Chartis Group.
Six things to know:
- Forty-three percent of rural hospitals have negative operating margins. More than half (51 percent) of rural hospitals in non-Medicaid expansion states have negative operating margins, compared with 39 percent in expansion states.
- There have been 143 rural hospital closures in the past 13 years, and Chartis research shows another 453 are vulnerable for closure.
- Rural hospital closures fell from 19 in 2020 to two in 2021, but crept up to seven in 2022.
- Between 2011 and 2019, 198 hospitals ceased to provide obstetrics. That number has since increased to 217 as of the time of the report's release.
- Between 2014 and 2019, 311 hospitals stopped providing chemotherapy. That number has since increased to 353.
- Conversion requirements and other considerations make it unlikely the new rural emergency hospital designation that went into effect Jan. 1 will deliver widespread relief to the rural safety net. Of the 389 hospitals most likely to consider conversion, a Chartis data model identified 77 that are ideal candidates.