The rural CAHs that are running thin to negative profit margins will also soon face steeper Medicaid cuts, which some hospitals believe will cause “significant and irreversible harm,” according to the report.
Officials at the Arizona State Office of Rural Health at the University of Arizona think that nine CAHs in the state could possibly face closure after more Medicaid cuts take effect. “You can only crash a system down so far before you’ve imploded it entirely,” said Jim Dickson, CEO of Copper Queen Community Hospital in Bisbee, Ariz., in the report.
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