Strategies in 4 Safety-Net Hospitals to Adapt to the ACA
Executive Summary
Theresa Coughlin, Sharon Long, Edward Sheen, and Jennifer Tolbert, “How Five Leading Safety-Net Hospitals Are Preparing for the Challenges and Opportunities of Health Reform,” Health Affairs vol. 31, issue no. 8 (August 2012): 1690 – 1697, doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.0258.
Introduction
Theresa Coughlin, et al. “How Five Leading Safety-Net Hospitals Are Preparing for the Challenges and Opportunities of Health Reform” (August 2012).
Overview of Study Hospitals
Authors tabulations based on the 2010 NAPH Characteristics Report and the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project [HCUP].
Authors’ tabulations based on the summary 2010 federal fiscal year Medicaid Statistical Information System data. Figures cited represent the number of nonelderly enrolled in a comprehensive managed care plan as a percentage of the number of total nonelderly Medicaid enrollees in the given county.
U.S. News and World Report, Best Hospitals (2013) http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/nv/university-medical-center-6880071.
Urban Institute and Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured estimates based on the Census Bureau's March 2012 and 2013 Current Population Survey (CPS: Annual Social and Economic Supplements).
Key Findings
U.S. News and World Report, Best Hospitals (2013).
