Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, in particular, has heavily reduced uncompensated care.
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Hospitals' uncompensated care costs have plummeted in Medicaid expansion states.
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Uncompensated care refers to treatment of people who lack health insurance.
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That means more patients "will come to our hospital uncompensated," said Davis.
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In addition, CMS is adding $1 billion to payments for uncompensated care.
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It was America, alone and uncompensated, acting on behalf of broader principles.
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Uncompensated care is medical treatment provided to people who are not insured.
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Already, some federal employees have sued the Trump administration over uncompensated labor.
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And hospitals would see uncompensated care jump by $50 billion, or 82%.
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Some federal employees have already sued the Trump administration over uncompensated labor.
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Ms Gillespie also points out that hospitals are not reporting increased uncompensated care.
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Fewer insured patients means more uncompensated care and less money to pay staff.
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Fitch has decided to discontinue the ratings, which are uncompensated, in 30 days.
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But everyone involved with the effort is donating many hours of uncompensated time.
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We are sick over all the crimes that will go unpunished and uncompensated.
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The estimates are staggering: Women globally produce a minimum $262 trillion in uncompensated labor.
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That means CHS has absorbed more uncompensated care than hospitals in Medicaid expansion states.
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But the contributions are data, and the people making contributions are unrecognized and uncompensated.
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As a result, safety-net hospitals provide nearly $22019 billion in uncompensated care annually.
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Uncompensated care became less of a problem in hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid.
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That drop translated into a reduction in uncompensated care costs of $10.4 billion last year.
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Hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid saw much bigger decreases in their uncompensated care rates.
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Since the ACA has been in effect, uncompensated care costs at hospitals have sharply fallen.
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A more generous formula would be used for payments to hospitals that provide uncompensated care.
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The number of uninsured will shoot up, as will the uncompensated care burden for hospitals.
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That will likely result in more people without insurance and more uncompensated care for hospitals.
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That would drive up system-wide costs by increasing uninsured rates and uncompensated care expenses.
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The deal reached Monday continues the state's full uncompensated care funding for another 22019 months.
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And with more individuals insured, the states will bear less of a burden for uncompensated care.
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Given these terms, set by the institution itself, the specific claim to reparations is uncompensated labor.
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Hospitals were just getting relief from uncompensated care, and don't want those costs to rise again.
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Some goes toward the tens of millions of dollars Parkview provides in uncompensated care every year.
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"A large portion of that [uncompensated-care burden] would be relieved" if Texas expanded Medicaid, Lunsford said.
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One cause: hospitals are expected to have more uninsured patients, and Medicare pays for that uncompensated care.
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Lower Medicaid payments and a spike in the uninsured population will increase providers' risk for uncompensated care.
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You will undergo physical, psychological, personality and S.T.D. screening, and give blood, urine and (uncompensated) semen samples.
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A result is that hospitals provide billions of dollars in uncompensated care to uninsured patients every year.
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Additional funds, therefore, may be needed to finance the anticipated spike in uncompensated care from the coronavirus.
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Research has consistently shown Medicaid expansion improves hospitals' financial performance by reducing the amount of uncompensated care.
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It reduces uncompensated care at hospitals, and the people who receive treatment are healthier and more productive.
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This will result in tens of billions of dollars in uncompensated care being provided by our hospitals.
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A 28503 Health Affairs study estimated that 22019 million uninsured Americans generated $85 billion in uncompensated care.
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Hospitals will then have to provide them with uncompensated care, imposing costs borne by the rest of society.
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"I even made people quit uncompensated non-profit outside positions because of conflicts risks," he wrote on Twitter.
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Another significant subsidy takes the form of uncompensated government costs for fixing roads damaged by heavy fracking trucks.
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The Medicaid expansion reduced opioid-related uncompensated care in West Virginia hospitals by over $2628 million in 28503.
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The amount of uncompensated care provided by hospitals fell from $2000 million in 258 to $282 in 2014.
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In many ways academia breeds, nurtures, and fetishizes the idea of the writer toiling in a garret, uncompensated.
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At the time, English labor was subject to uncompensated apprenticeships, domestic servitude, and some measure of clerical dominion.
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As a result, the report said, Medicare payments to certain hospitals for "uncompensated care" are expected to increase.
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The Disproportionate Share Hospital program (abbreviated DSH and also called "uncompensated care payments") partly pays for the uninsured.
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Collins serves in an uncompensated role as a board member of Innate and is the company's largest stockholder.
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Uncompensated care pool funding should not pay for costs that would be paid for in a Medicaid expansion.
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The lower level of uncompensated care helped the medical center record a profit — and hire more than 1,000 workers.
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Can you say that hospitals will not be required to shoulder any more uncompensated care costs through your plan?
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Medicare payments to hospitals for unpaid bills and uncompensated care would be reduced by $136 billion over 10 years.
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School overcrowding, a surge in uncompensated care at the hospitals and a new need for translators drained city coffers.
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Texas is trying to secure a new Medicaid waiver that would continue add-on payments to hospitals for uncompensated care.
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"Everyone is wondering if people are going to be covered, and what are the provisions for uncompensated care?" she says.
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The resulting increase in the uninsured would mean that hospitals would have to cover more uncompensated care, straining their budgets.
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These states saved money through reduced spending and uncompensated care for the uninsured, and gained tax revenue collected from providers.
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Yet the contradiction of Ukeles's decades-long, authorized, uncompensated role cuts to the heart of the complications underlying her work.
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These Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) cuts help partially offset hospitals' uncompensated costs of caring for uninsured and underinsured people.
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Our uncompensated care rate with all of our providers went from something like 25 percent to less than 5 percent.
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Noel also claims to have worked about 3,300 hours of uncompensated overtime during his last 6 years on the job.
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" At the same time, Garfield said, the Affordable Care Act "actually reduced the amount of uncompensated-care reimbursement to the states.
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Mayo Clinic did not respond to questions about its financial documents and instead sent a statement that touted its uncompensated care.
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Without cost-sharing assistance, uncompensated care will increase dramatically, putting hospitals and doctors, which are foundational to their communities, in jeopardy.
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For instance, hospitals have lost more than $35 billion a year on uncompensated services for each of the last ten years.
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The deal reached Monday postpones the debate over expanding Medicaid by continuing the full uncompensated care funding for another 85033 months.
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State funding to hospitals and other providers for uncompensated care has decreased as a result of coverage expansion under the ACA.
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It has helped them to maintain the infrastructure to serve their communities, by reducing the burden of uncompensated care on hospitals.
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Similarly, the Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act recently passed the Senate but now must move forward in the House.
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For-profit cosmetology schools use state governments to keep training requirements high — then benefit from students' uncompensated work in their salons.
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Hospitals provided more than $38 billion in uncompensated care in 2017, according to the Journal, citing the American Hospital Association (AHA).
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Additionally, if some markets are left without plans because all insurers withdraw, hospitals will also experience greater demand for uncompensated care.
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Hospitals still have to treat people, even if they don't have coverage, so those reductions in uncompensated care would likely disappear.
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If Florida expanded Medicaid eligibility, the Obama administration said, fewer people would be uninsured, and hospitals would have less uncompensated care.
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Hospitals, in particular, have been vocal supporters of Medicaid expansion on the state level since it reduces their levels of uncompensated care.
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If the "uncompensated care" funding had been cut without an expansion of Medicaid, it could have led to harmful cuts in care.
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Why it matters: Obamacare has helped mitigate the tide of uncompensated care for hospitals in expansion states, the Kaiser Family Foundation notes.
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" Why it matters, in the grand jury's own words: "We are sick over all the crimes that will go unpunished and uncompensated.
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Medicaid expansion is a welcome source of new revenue to rural hospitals in Maine because more insured patients mean fewer uncompensated treatments.
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In states that have not expanded Medicaid, rural hospitals must serve more uninsured patients and deliver a significant amount of uncompensated care.
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But because women earn less and are more likely to have spent uncompensated years as caregivers, their retirement benefits can still suffer.
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This may be needed to ensure that hospitals in poorer neighborhoods are not overwhelmed by the rising cost of delivering uncompensated care.
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In the face of more uncompensated care, hospitals, doctors and other health care providers will inevitably shift costs to other stable payers.
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It calculated that Amazon trucks last year created $642 million in "uncompensated public costs" for noise, road wear, accidents and harmful emissions.
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Outside of bankruptcy, they do not face the risk of uncompensated time spent defending their own fee application from a disgruntled third party.
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GDP doesn't account for women's uncompensated labor — an area of productivity that is foundational to the function of every economy in the world.
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The complaint says he worked about 27 hours of uncompensated overtime per year for those six years, totaling about 2000,217 hours of overtime.
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WHAT IT DOES The Medicaid program sets aside extra money for states to help safety-net hospitals cover the costs of uncompensated care.
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Hospitals and clinics, especially in rural areas, would gladly take any kind of expansion money instead of absorbing uncompensated care costs from the uninsured.
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And a large number of critical federal employees outside of DoD are being asked to report to work uncompensated until they can receive backpay.
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One Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study found repealing the law would cost states more than $68 billion over the next decade in uncompensated care.
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The costs of uncompensated care are passed on to the American people in higher taxes, higher insurance premiums, and higher fees for medical services.
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The repeal without placement of the ACA could leave these individuals and families uninsured and forced to seek uncompensated care, with unmet medical needs.
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And there are some states that because they had all this uncompensated care ended up making money by providing more insurance to your people.
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Millions more uninsured Americans would result in more uncompensated care in our hospitals — hospitals will shift those costs onto those who do have coverage.
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If Medicare could not cover 13 percent of benefits, Bedlin said hospitals would likely experience reimbursement cuts and have to stomach more uncompensated care.
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Prior to the enactment of ObamaCare, uncompensated care provided by hospitals in our communities was in the range of $75 billion to $125 billion.
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Others enroll in expensive government programs or turn to hospitals for their primary care needs, which drives up uncompensated care costs for all taxpayers.
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They would also no longer have to provide tens of billions of dollars worth of uncompensated care to uninsured people if everyone were covered.
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The game industry pays a premium in monetary and labor costs, much of it squeezed from overtime, uncompensated, and stressed-out labor, for this escalation.
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They can mean the difference between life or death — or the difference of a family member needing to quit her job to provide uncompensated care.
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It probably won't be, and I will continue to do this (uncompensated) work at the expense of my own scholarship and more substantive blog posts.
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"A state could say, 'I'm going to take all this money to pay doctors for uncompensated care and not provide any health coverage,'" Park says.
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A life-style blogger in Connecticut, whose uncompensated #doingthings post I had come across, lamented how much time she and her peers devoted to Instagram.
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Uncompensated labor is often referred to as "invisible work," and includes essential household responsibilities like cleaning, child care and taking care of sick family members.
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Hospitals, freed from a burden of uncompensated costs that's estimated at $42 million annually, have more resources available to care for everyone in the community.
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This will force Medicare to expend billions in additional payments to hospitals that provide uncompensated care at the expense of the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund.
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Hospitals and other medical providers would incur losses, as many now have higher revenues and reduced costs for uncompensated care in states that expanded Medicaid.
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"A state could say, I'm going to take all this money to pay doctors for uncompensated care and not provide any health coverage," Park says.
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Such payments might thus be particularly powerful for women, who provide the lion's share of uncompensated care work in both Canada and the United States.
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Careforce Prints by Marisa Jahn, for example, is a series of political posters advocating for the rights of caretakers whose labor often goes unacknowledged and uncompensated.
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The university will also extend preferred admissions status to the descendants of slaves who can be identified as those who provided uncompensated labor at the university.
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Even under the CBO's smaller uninsured number, the cost of uncompensated care is sure to rise by a lot, study co-author Matthew Buettgens told me.
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Minorities are already disadvantaged by such immature technologies, and the burden they bear for the improved security of society at large is both inequitable and uncompensated.
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But the Constitution for decades permitted the horrors of slavery: physical torture, separated families, and, of course, the uncompensated labor at the heart of the enterprise.
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A spokeswoman for MD Anderson said that its head of technology transfer serves on one corporate board as a hospital representative, but that position is uncompensated.
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And given their core belief that patients should never forgo care because of cost, hospitals have provided more than $620 billion in uncompensated care since 2000.
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It's seeking to exclude expenses related to outpatient prescription drugs, home- and community-based long-term care, uncompensated care payments to hospitals and several other costs.
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The Obama administration balked at providing more money to help hospitals cope with the costs of "uncompensated care" for people who could be covered by Medicaid.
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In states that expanded Medicaid under Obamacare, researchers say hospitals have seen less uncompensated charitable care over the last few years as more people gained insurance coverage.
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If the bill passes the House: Hospital companies (HCA, Tenet Healthcare, LifePoint Health, Community Health Systems, Universal Health Services) could suffer since Trumpcare would increase uncompensated care.
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Ratings analysts at Moody's see both not-for-profit and for profit hospitals facing weaker demand and higher levels of uncompensated care after federal Medicaid cuts begin.
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And individuals who are unemployed or under-employed will benefit as employers add more hours or new jobs to make up for the loss of uncompensated overtime.
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Currently, 2628B hospitals make up only 28500 percent of the all of the hospitals in the country, but take on 6900 percent of the nation's uncompensated care.
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Still, that positive margin is well less than half that of other hospitals, reflecting essential hospitals' commitment to a mission that often goes uncompensated or under-compensated.
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Total uncompensated care was less than 2628 percent of total personal health care spending, a rate lower than the current delinquency rate on single family home mortgages.
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This means ObamaCare is spending 85033 percent of the amount spent on all uncompensated care to subsidize coverage for about eight million people who already had coverage.
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But, as the goofy guy chomping on breadsticks in the back of the video, I can assure you this video and its story are completely true and uncompensated.
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"We would expect that if there were a lot of people who were actually using their insurance, that we would see a rise in uncompensated care," she says.
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It also found that reduced federal Medicaid funding would likely result in reduced enrollment, a greater uncompensated care burden for providers, lower state revenues, and reduced economic activity.
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The wording of the implausible story Cohen offered in his statement leaves him a couple of escape hatches from the sticky situation of being the uncompensated money man.
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Many did, leaving millions of patients without coverage and essential hospitals to absorb uncompensated care costs far higher than expected when Congress wrote the DSH cuts into law.
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Hospitals and doctors were able to decrease their uncompensated care, while insurers gained access to a larger population of customers who could buy coverage with a government subsidy.
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"You're looking at the uncompensated care in Texas still up in the $4- billion- to $5-billion-a-year range," said Lance Lunsford, spokesman for the Texas Hospital Association.
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If millions of Americans lose or drop their coverage, we will see a jump in bad debt and uncompensated care -- that is care for which we receive no payments.
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I'm sure there's more to what I saw during the week I was there, as far as those who go uncompensated, but what I did sees blew me away.
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I don't know if this will be enough to cover uncompensated care for the uninsured during this crisis, or if this is the best way to structure such aid.
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In rural areas, lower incomes and higher rates of uninsured people contribute to higher levels of uncompensated hospital care — meaning many people are unable to pay their hospital bills.
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The order says the United States "admitting thousands of aliens who have not demonstrated any ability to pay for their healthcare costs," contributes to the problem of uncompensated care.
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This policy would diminish the economic potential of the family and — in a perverse twist — increase the likelihood that they might receive uncompensated care if a medical emergency occurred.
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Mr. Azar said that the Affordable Care Act, by expanding coverage, was supposed to "get rid of uncompensated care" so there would be less need for the special payments.
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But a study by the Urban Institute in January estimated that if 30 million people lost insurance under a Republican plan, it would almost triple the amount of uncompensated care.
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Eventually the group decided that, instead of merely influencing fans and partygoers to buy someone else's product—and be uncompensated for that brand's increased visibility—they'd make their own line.
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U.S. hospitals had nearly $36 billion in uncompensated care costs in 2015, according to the industry's largest trade group, a figure that is largely made up of unpaid patient bills.
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"Uncompensated care essentially gets passed on to the other patients as higher costs," Embry Howell, a health policy senior fellow at the Urban Institute, told the Miami Herald in January.
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Hospitals may have to cut back services and jobs in the short run in anticipation of the surge in uncompensated care that will result from rolling back the Medicaid expansion.
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Health care costs will also increase due to uncompensated care, as more of the population cannot afford basic health care services to prevent disease – let alone chronic or critical care.
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With the repeal of ObamaCare, there could be millions of Americans who will be uninsured leading to billions of dollars in uncompensated care, further burdening hospitals, especially in rural areas.
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In some states, it appears that expansion has improved state finances, by reducing the need for programs that pay doctors and hospitals directly for uncompensated care, among other ancillary effects.
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An expansion of Medicaid to cover undocumented immigrants up to age 26, alleviating pressure on public hospitals and emergency rooms saddled with millions of dollars each year in uncompensated care.
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The country's history of uncompensated expropriations and the 99 percent depreciation of its fiat currency the bolivar have created doubts about the ruling Socialist Party's capacity to manage digital tokens.
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Consider this: Uncompensated care at hospitals declined by $7.4 billion in 2014 after most major provisions of the law kicked in, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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A 2017 report found that New York's public hospitals provided 52 percent of the uncompensated care in the state, yet received just 15 percent of the state's charity care dollars.
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"The average hospital saw uncompensated care fall by 40-45 percent," said Tom Buchmueller, a health economist and professor of health policy at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
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The big figure for hospitals: Total Medicare payments for the nation's 3,300 general hospitals will go up by 2.9% on average in 2018, and that includes extra money for uncompensated care.
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We start with a fake sticker price to negotiate with the uninsured and to declare uncompensated care, but you cannot just walk in and pay as you can for anything else.
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The outdated data don't reflect how the ACA's coverage expansions in 2014 eased some financial burdens on hospitals, said Garthwaite, who has studied how the ACA has reduced hospitals' uncompensated care.
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The reduction is called for because more New Jerseyans are now insured, causing a big decline in uncompensated hospital care and an increase in Medicaid funds flowing into hospitals, Scudder testified.
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She's researched topics like the ACA's expansion of Medicaid and the effect on uncompensated care for hospitals, as well as the 340B program, which gives some hospitals a discount on medicines.
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Overall, most hospitals came out ahead under Obamacare, with big reductions in uncompensated care costs -- though hospitals in states that didn't expand Medicaid had less relief than hospitals in expansion states.
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In her words While billionaires, most of them men, continue to accumulate wealth, women around the world are trapped in poverty because they spend much of their time on "uncompensated" work.
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Such uncompensated advertorial playlists are harmful in that they offer artists no option to opt-out, but also because they undercut what can sometimes be a valuable source of revenue for artists.
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Federal spending on healthcare would be cut by $1 trillion over a decade, putting states and local health officials on the hook for another $1.1 trillion in uncompensated care over that time.
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With insulin now costing up to $900 a month, a diagnosis of diabetes can mean financial ruin for a low-wage worker, especially if it results in uncompensated sick days or underemployment.
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Those costs are astronomical: A 2017 study from the Urban Institute found a partial repeal of ACA would cause an additional 30 million uninsured people to seek $0003 billion in uncompensated care.
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It's true that we are privileged to have the opportunity to do work we are passionate about, but that often comes with a price paid in under-compensated (and sometimes uncompensated) labor.
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Governor Snyder describes it as a win-win for all sides; more people are receiving health care benefits, and there is a 44% drop in uncompensated care days at hospitals around the state.
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" While testifying, University of South Carolina president Harris Pastides said that paying players would create a "wedge" between them and their classmates, and make uncompensated, non-revenue-sport athletes feel "worse about themselves.
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To eliminate these uncompensated risks, diversify your portfolio to include a wide range of asset classes, such as foreign stocks and bonds, and you'll be in a better position to endure a downturn.
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Yet 220006B hospitals provide 2202 percent of all uncompensated care, even though they account for only about one third of hospitals, and they treat 2628 percent more Medicaid and low-income Medicare patients.
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And the cost to the American taxpayer was minimal: The program had no uncompensated administrative costs, nor were recipients eligible for welfare benefits or subsidies of any kind under the Affordable Care Act.
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"We must continue that tradition while also addressing the challenges facing our healthcare system, including protecting both it and the American taxpayer from the burdens of uncompensated care," Trump wrote in the proclamation.
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A 2013 study conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that nearly half of all internships nationwide are uncompensated, with government agencies and nonprofits offering a majority of those positions.
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States would also see their outlays go down since they would no longer pay for medical care for those on Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) or for uncompensated care at hospitals.
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Repealing the Medicaid expansion will confront hospitals with an uncompensated care crisis; repealing private insurance subsidies will collapse the individual marketplaces; repealing the coverage guarantee will allow insurers to again discriminate against sick people.
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" Barnes adds: "I am here because it is truly, for me, an acknowledgment of years of sweat equity, uncompensated labor, hard work that I've put into changing the landscape for Black women and girls.
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Any imported sperm must come from donors who meet the same standards New Zealand imposes on its own (non-anonymous, donated to 10 families or fewer, and uncompensated), and that's a near impossible find.
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To rationalize this proposal, which a former Republican member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has dubbed "the antithesis of good economics, " Secretary Perry points to uncompensated benefits generated by coal and nuclear plants.
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" Linn also said the plaintiffs' state law copyrights were "distinct" from rights inherent in the remasterings, and the CBS counterarguments would leave the plaintiffs "uncompensated and without control of distribution of their creative product.
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"What it means is as a patient takes on more responsibility, then it is likely that that debt, which is a component of uncompensated care, has a potential to increase for hospitals," Yount said.
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The only question is by how much, as Medicaid payments can sometimes not be enough to match the cost of providing care to Medicaid patients, which can partially offset the savings in uncompensated care.
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The plaintiffs also argued that since short-term plans leave people underinsured, the directive is undermining its own stated goal of cutting some of the uncompensated care costs from the U.S. health care system.
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After all, the federal government will pay 90 percent of the cost, and experience shows that expanding Medicaid produces indirect cost savings — for example, by letting states reduce aid to hospitals for uncompensated costs.
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"In the Oregon health experiment, we estimate that 60 cents of every dollar in additional Medicaid spending actually is a transfer to the providers of uncompensated care," says Amy Finkelstein, a health economist at MIT.
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If the Republicans pass their bill — and millions of people are left without coverage, as some outside groups are predicting — that would mean more hospitals would be forced to absorb the costs of uncompensated care.
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In other words, users are not so much customers as uncompensated digital laborers who play dynamic and indispensable functions (despite being largely uninformed about the ways in which their labor is being used and capitalized).
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The U.S. Department of State is expected to provide a nonbinding report to Congress later this year on property restitution, under legislation known as the Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act, or Act 447.
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The refrain I so often heard from colleagues the Law360 newsroom - "hey, at least we have jobs in journalism" - was a salve against their growing frustrations with pay, story quotas and long often uncompensated hours.
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But the costs generated by people who go without insurance won't go away — they'll be picked up by those who continue to buy coverage, through higher premiums, more limited service, and greater uncompensated care demands.
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Yet the reality is that art and domestic work are both likely to go uncompensated or poorly compensated, and under such circumstances, both have to be approached with love and rigor to be done well.
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With a delay, policymakers and hospitals will have time to find sustainable, long-term solutions to the persistent problem of uncompensated care — solutions that keep our hospitals and the people and communities they serve strong.
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The amount of uncompensated care facing providers would roughly double in Pennsylvania and Michigan, rise by about 90% percent in Florida and increase by half or more in Texas, Arizona and North Carolina, the institute projected.
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The study also noted that unless Congress took action, there would also be "very large increases in demand" for so-called uncompensated care on state and local governments, as well as on health providers like hospitals.
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Uncompensated care is care provided by hospitals and doctors that is not covered by insurers or patients themselves, either because the patient is completely uninsured or because they cannot cover their out-of-pocket medical costs.
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But state spending would increase by $203 million during the same time frame as the reductions in Medicaid spending "would be more than offset by increases in uncompensated [medical] care," for people who lack health coverage.
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Unfortunately for the Knights on the ground in local chapters, who are largely uncompensated volunteers, this means they have to cover the cost of the nonexistent members they couldn't take off the books, the lawsuit alleges.
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In its latest bulletin, the Trump administration said that many state insurance commissioners had allowed insurers to increase rates for 2018 to account for the "uncompensated liability" that they might face for the cost-sharing reductions.
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Republican governors like John Kasich of Ohio and Rick Snyder of Michigan have praised the expansion because it has helped reduce uncompensated care at hospitals and provided addiction treatment to people suffering from the opioid epidemic.
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To allow for more accurate Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) related decisions and maximum benefit to states to assist in providing uncompensated care, the new draft discussion changes the DSH calculation from per Medicaid enrollee to per uninsured.
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And even if it did, the GOP might end up crafting and adopting a replacement for the ACA that could offset some if not all of the increases in uncompensated care costs estimated by the Urban Institute.
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There are some hospitals, even in my district, that are very concerned about not being able to sustain the care for uncompensated uninsured patients that go to their emergency departments because they're the only hospital in town.
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It leaves out of its accounting the largest source of labor in the United States before the Civil War, people held in bondage, and fails to consider how the rise of wage labor left women's work uncompensated.
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After all, we normally think of Republicans in general, and Trump in particular, as people who minimize or deny the "negative externalities" imposed by some business activities — the uncompensated costs they impose on other people or businesses.
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A study in 2017 by the Commonwealth Fund found that for every dollar of uncompensated care costs those states had in 2013, the health law had erased 40 cents by 2015, or a total of $6.2 billion.
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The movement has gained the kind of coherence and steam that converts into brand value, bolstered by a host of independent internet-based projects for teens mostly comprised of individual (and uncompensated) Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram accounts.
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A separate report from the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found reductions to Medicaid spending (another Trump proposal) would increase state spending by $68.5 billion between 20183 and 2026 due to increases in uncompensated care.
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Simultaneously, it projected that the amount of uncompensated care that hospitals and other providers must provide to patients without health insurance would soar by 20203%, from about $60 billion under the ACA to over $110 billion without it.
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The Urban Institute report found that the cost of so-called uncompensated care sought from hospitals and doctors would equal $1.7 trillion over a decade — $1.1 trillion more than if the Affordable Care Act was kept in place.
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In the suit, which is currently pending in LA County Superior Court, Kaputsos says he's seeking back wages for unpaid overtime (he alleges he sometimes worked more than 270 hours a day), uncompensated breaks, and unpaid sick time.
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Essentially, the notes are meant to put pressure on the shopper to send a message to the top that the retailer's factory workers are going uncompensated for as long as up to three months and without severance pay.
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An independent investigator, WRC has criticised Nike within the past two years for not doing enough to address problems at one of its supplier's factories, Hansae Vietnam, which had included unjust firings, uncompensated work and unsafe working conditions.
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In addition, uncompensated care, or services rendered by hospitals for which they cannot collect payment, as a percentage of hospital costs has remained almost flat for the last decade, yet their profits from the 340B program have exploded.
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That would seem to belie the purpose of the program as most people understand it, though 340B hospitals have their own data that they say shows they provide the bulk of uncompensated health care in the United States.
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But while the proposed changes would alter the texture of the sport, they stopped well short of challenging the longtime requirement that the college athletes remain amateurs, uncompensated beyond a scholarship and a stipend for their talents and efforts.
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States will have to pick up some of the increased Medicaid costs, while much of the cost of providing care for the low-income Americans who lose coverage will be borne by health care providers as bad debt and uncompensated care.
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"Given that our hospitals already operate with no margin on average, it's hard to see how they could avoid layoffs if a repeal increases uncompensated care," Beth Feldpush, senior vice president of policy and advocacy at America's Essential Hospitals, told Forbes.
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"The days when medical debt and uncompensated care were significant problems in the health care system will be back," Tricia Brooks at Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families wrote of the combined effects of repealing retroactive and presumptive eligibility.
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Written by James Forman, a black civil rights activist who later served as foreign minister for the Black Panther Party, the document noted that its demand was an effort to see justice after centuries of coerced and uncompensated black labor.
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Medicare's final 13 hospital payment rule set in stone a spate of policies — ranging from a withdrawn proposal that would have required accrediting bodies to make confidential hospital inspections public to a new (and unpopular) system for calculating hospitals' uncompensated care.
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Canada's statistical office took a stab at figuring out the value of uncompensated care, and came up with roughly one-third of the country's annual G.D.P. Here in the United States, that would mean something like $6 trillion a year.
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"It could leave countless people with too little coverage to meet their health care needs and drive higher rates of uncompensated care at hospitals already struggling to cover their costs," Bruce Siegel, president of America's Essential Hospitals, said in a statement.
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LeBron James is an executive producer of this HBO Sports documentary, directed by the two-time Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Trish Dalton, exploring the billion-dollar industry of college athletics and the uncompensated student athletes who fuel it.
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"There wasn't really an advantage for either side to try to create leverage [on this]," he said, adding that both sides agreed not to "blow up" the uncompensated care funding, leading to potentially harmful cuts, over the Medicaid expansion issue.
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"Weakening that guarantee -- or eliminating the federal standards and oversight that ensure that states, health plans, and providers comply with it -- would worsen access to care, health, and financial security for beneficiaries and likely increase providers' uncompensated care costs," she added.
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The women shared similar stories with The Guardian of joining the company in good standing and doing well, if not exceeding expectations, before realizing that their contributions were being overlooked, or going unnoticed and uncompensated, compared to work of their male colleagues.
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Sara Collins, vice president for health-care access and coverage at the Commonwealth Fund, pointed out that in expansion states, hospitals have seen a sharp reduction in their expenses due to "uncompensated care" — the costs of treating people who don't have health insurance.
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"We were unknowing, unwilling, and uncompensated participants in the world's largest lab test," says Tina Cordova, founder of the Tularosa Downwinders, a consortium which has been fighting for both recognition and compensation for the dowinders in the Tularosa basin of New Mexico.
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When Mr. Trump's defenders use the fact that the president has employed and encouraged a handful of women — to, as we now know, also serve as his uncompensated therapists — as a shield against accusations of sexism, they are deploying a similarly mendacious argument.
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In a Commonwealth Fund Issue Brief, researchers from Northwestern Kellogg School of Management found that hospitals in Medicaid expansion states saved $6.2 billion in uncompensated care, with the largest reductions in states with the highest proportion of low-income and uninsured patients.
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The indictment alleged that the woman's relatives subjected her to physical violence, psychological and verbal abuse, and psychological manipulation from August 2015 to June 2016 as a way of forcing her to perform uncompensated household and yard work at the house they shared with her.
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Without the subsidies, the letter on Wednesday said, more insurers could leave the Obamacare exchanges, premiums for 2018 and beyond would rise, and providers would have additional uncompensated care costs, because they would not receive payments that help cover the costs of low-income patients.
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Later investigation revealed the horrific conditions under which the woman was allegedly made to live and work, including "physical violence, threats of physical violence, psychological and verbal abuse, abuse of legal process, and psychological manipulation to obtain uncompensated labor and services," the federal indictment states.
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To put this in perspective: the estimated economic value of this uncompensated care surpassed total Medicaid spending ($2628 billion) in 28500, and nearly equaled the sales ($6900 billion) of the four largest U.S. tech companies combined (Apple, Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Microsoft) in 2628-28503.
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In most professions, women make less than men, but in academia this pay gap is compounded by the fact that women tend to spend more uncompensated time advising students while also being subjected to student evaluations that studies show are consistently biased against them.
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A report, due next October, from the State Department, to comply with a recently passed federal law, the Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today Act, will address a range of Holocaust-related issues, including an assessment of any progress in the return of confiscated art.
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It's a law that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, strengthened millions of families, created hundreds of thousands of jobs, stabilized health care in rural America, and significantly reduced the level of uncompensated care that pushed up the cost of health care for everyone.
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"You have a big problem, because there is nothing in the law that would increase the [amount] of federal payments" that offset the costs of providing uncompensated care, said John Holahan, institute fellow at the Urban Institute's Health Policy Center, a co-author of the report.
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We know that crunch is the method through which the video game industry subsidizes our games (by socially pressuring and managerially expecting people to work longer compensated and uncompensated hours at development), and Koster gives us a way of figuring that as a data-to-hours equivalency.
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"Transitioning federal Medicaid payments to a per-capita, or block grant system, and freezing Medicaid expansion would reduce the number of people with insurance and increase hospitals' exposure to bad debt and uncompensated care cost," said Daniel Steingart, a senior analyst and vice president at Moody's.
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"The overall financial position of any hospital will depend on their percentage of patients with Medicaid insurance, their commercial reimbursement rates, and other ways in which they recover uncompensated costs, such as philanthropic donations or federal safety-net hospital subsidies," Colvin told Reuters Health by email.
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The ball is in the Senate's court and the stakes couldn't be higher: 22 million more added to the ranks of the uninsured, 1.45 million jobs lost and uncompensated costs soaring at hospitals on the front lines of care for people who have nowhere else to turn.
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The Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act, or Act 447, requires the U.S. Department of State to provide a report to Congress on the progress of dozens of countries that signed a declaration in 2009 on the restitution of assets seized during or following World War Two.
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According to the US Federal Election Commission, "even though a foreign national cannot make campaign contributions or expenditures (including advances of personal funds), he or she can serve as an uncompensated volunteer for a campaign or political party," with the exception of a decision-making or management role.
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The Democratic Governors Association on Wednesday wrote Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying that in addition to potentially 30 million people losing insurance if Obamacare is repealed, states may also be hit with almost $69 billion in costs from so-called uncompensated care over the next decade.
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Beyond what increasingly appear to be the inherent and horrifying physical effects of long-term play on its athletes, there is the unavoidable fact of their exploitation: College players go uncompensated by rule, while TV networks, coaches and apparel companies make money hand over fist on the players' talent.
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A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that the early participating hospitals were more likely to be located in poor communities with higher levels of uninsured people, to spend more of their budget on uncompensated care, and to offer more low-profit services than hospitals that started participating later.
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During the federal antitrust case brought against the NCAA by former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon over the uncompensated use of athlete names, images, and likenesses, Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollins warned that allowing athlete pay would force his school to cut non-revenue sports—but not his own $910,000 of total compensation.
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Those were only a couple of the latest damaging accusations about Pruitt just this week, following months of drip-drip-drip disclosures about a $50-a-night Capitol Hill condo rental from a lobbyist's wife, first-class travel, dramatic increase in spending on security and uncompensated personal work that he received from EPA aides.
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But Mueller did not unreservedly endorse this view — he also expressed some concerns about how this interpretation would fare in court: At the same time, no judicial decision has treated the voluntary provision of uncompensated opposition research or similar information as a thing of value that could amount to a contribution under campaign-finance laws.
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If the Trump administration and Republican-controlled states win their legal effort to completely invalidate the law, 20 million people would lose health insurance, and hospitals and other health care providers would be forced to provide $50 billion more in uncompensated medical care in just the first year, according to projections by the nonpartisan Urban Institute.
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Their antislavery petitions predate the formation of the first (and exclusively white) abolition societies in the 1780s and 1790s, and they were faster to dismiss colonization as a legitimate antislavery plan, to demand immediate, uncompensated emancipation, to aid fugitive slaves in what came to be called the Underground Railroad and finally to promote organized slave rebellions.
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Studies suggest that 31 to 40 percent of all healthcare spending is consumed by federal bureaucracy, administration, rules, regulations and compliance (BARRC.) If Texas could recoup just half of the money wasted on BARRC, $5.3 billion a year could be made available to ameliorate the multibillion-dollar expense of uncompensated care and to address the physician shortage.
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"And I cannot support a bill that is going to make such deep cuts to Medicaid that's going to shift billions of dollars in costs to our state government, to those who have insurance, and to health-care providers such as rural hospitals which would be faced with a great deal of uncompensated care," Collins said.
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Two months later, in May 2018, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE signed The Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act into law.
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The states are arguing that they have to "bear the burden" of unauthorized migration by paying for public schooling for unauthorized immigrant children; including US citizen children whose parents are unauthorized in safety-net programs; and especially, by having to provide "uncompensated" emergency care to unauthorized immigrants who don't have health insurance, since they're barred from participating in the exchanges under Obamacare and don't have low-cost insurance options.
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Florida's Republican governor, Rick Scott, last year sued the Obama administration after it sought to limit uncompensated care funding in that state, arguing that it was an attempt to coerce the state to expand Medicaid (a claim that the Obama administration strongly denied.) John Hawkins, senior vice president of government relations at the Texas Hospital Association, noted that the Texas legislature won't be in session, allowing it to even consider Medicaid expansion, until January 2017.
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He had stepped down as chairman of Dune Entertainment before his confirmation, at which time Louise Linton, who was then his fiancée and is now his wife, was named "interim C.E.O. in an uncompensated capacity," while Mr. Mnuchin worked to divest from the company, according to a letter sent by the Treasury Department last year to Mr. Wyden, whose 2016 re-election campaign received nearly $11,000 from Mr. Blavatnik and his wife.
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