The Senate and House healthcare reform bills both seek to reduce Medicare reimbursements to hospitals, which would have a greater effect on hospitals that enjoy the highest reimbursements, most of which are in large urban areas.
While high-cost hospitals in large networks would be protected from downgrades, “the most vulnerable hospitals will be stand-alone hospitals dependent on high cost referral practices and which do not gain many new paying patients,” Moody’s stated.
Read ABC News Health’s report on hospitals’ debt ratings.
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