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Hospital Revenue Cycle Management and Payer Mix: Do Medicare and Medicaid Undermine Hospitals’Ability to Generate and Collect Patient Care Revenue?
In recent years, budget bined with the acceleration in the growth of hospital costs have forced policymakers at both federal and state levels to limit future increases in government payers’ reimbursement rates or even cut the rates they currently pay providers. These cost containment efforts have resulted in substantial payment shortfalls for hospitals. According to the American Hospital Association, between 2000 and 2007, the average payment-to-cost ratios for Medicare and Medicaid patients fell from 99 to 91 percent and from 95 to 88 percent, respectively, while the average payment-to-cost ratio for privately insured patients rose from 116 to 132 percent. :1 Hospital participation in Medicare and Medicaid is voluntary, yet—given that these two programs account for 55 percent of care provided by hospitals—very few hospitals can afford not to serve publicly insured patients. Consequently, most hospitals have no choice but to accept the payment rates and terms that lawmakers set for the treatment of Medicare and Medicaid patients. However, given government payers’ continued efforts to contain health care costs, hospital managers have e increasingly concerned that serving Medicare and Medicaid patients could se