The American Hospital Association’s president on cost shifting

Austin Frakt

July 8, 2015

According to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the Medicare margin was negative 5.4 percent in 2013. Hospitals must make up for shortfalls through a combination of approaches, and cost shifting to the private sector is among them.

—Rich Umbdenstock, President and Chief Executive, American Hospital Association, in a letter printed in The New York Times on June 24, 2015

All TIE’s cost shifting posts are here. I wrote about it in The New York Times here.

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Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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