Matt Rees, CEO of Mayers Memorial Hospital in Fall River Mills, Calif., said the cuts in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, could force the hospital to lay off 50 employees and cut all or part of several different hospital programs, according to a Record Searchlight report. The cuts could even drive the hospital into bankruptcy, he said in the report.
Lindsay Mann, CEO of Kaweah Delta Health Care District in Visalia, Calif., said his hospital’s charity-care burden will probably reach $29 million this year, according to a Fresno Bee report. In 2008, that total was $13 million.
The California Hospital Association criticized CMS last week, saying the Medi-Cal cuts will exacerbate the number of uninsured patients and may force droves of physicians to stop accepting Medicaid patients altogether.
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