FastFinance: Middle class voiding care over costs; Rural funding specified

HFMA’s FastFinance newsletter is now a podcast. Host Rich Daly discusses the most current and relevant healthcare news, delivered in an easily digestible format.

Commercially insured individuals with average incomes are avoiding care at the highest rates because of cost concerns, a recent survey found.

Also, this week’s Weird Number: 332,500. That’s the number of annual ACA marketplace enrollment reductions projected by a proposed rule implementing new requirements for enrollee subsidy applicants, starting in 2028.

One More Thing: Workforce initiatives garnered the biggest share of $4 billion in federal rural healthcare grants provided by midsummer, according to an analysis.

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