- A new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has recognized that changes in laws and regulations, prompted primarily by the ACA–notablyreduced Medicare payment updates and expanded insurance coverage–can be expected to significantly impact hospitals’ future finances.
- To help provide a sense of the impacts, the CBO’s working paper predicted hospitals’ profit margins, and the share of hospitals that could lose money in 2025 under several different scenarios.
- The researchers noted that they provided a wide range of estimates due to “substantial uncertainty” around the predictions and how hospitals will respond to the pressures of the federal healthcare law.
HENRY KOTULA 