States push new hospital funding arrangements
States are implementing a growing number of initiatives to provide funding for rural or otherwise financially struggling hospitals. This push comes amid data showing that a record number of hospitals are financially distressed, and advocates warn that coming federal Medicaid cuts will worsen the situation. Indiana targeted funds Indiana hospitals celebrated a new arrangement within…
States overhaul certificate-of-need laws
States have advanced a range of reforms to their certificate-of-need (CON) laws amid federal pressure to weaken or eliminate them. The highest-profile change, so far this year, was Tennessee’s April 16 passage of a bill (SB1369) to repeal its CON requirements for acute care hospitals. CON requirements for most acute care hospitals in the state…
Hospitals brace for looming federal cuts in Medicaid and elsewhere
The historic healthcare policy changes — and associated Medicaid cuts — in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act have left it to the states to figure out how to keep their residents insured and healthy with $1 trillion less in federal funding. With impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or OBBBA, including a…