Hundreds of hospitals in the rural parts of the United States are at risk of closing because they are no longer able to stay open, according to a new report issued by the Center for Health Care and Payment Repair. The main reason: insurance companies pay them much lower than their counterparts in the major city of the same services.
In Trinity, Texas, about 90 miles north of Houston, the Midcoast Medical Center recently forced to close its doors.
“It has a great impact on society. We will lose his life. Four hundred people come here.”
In East Texas Beni Woods, Midcoast was more than one building. The lifeline was when the children were born where the 90 -year -old Cathy Courtney’s husband was restarted, saving his life.
Courtney said that she and her husband used the facility “about six times in the past 14 months.”
Midcost CBS News officials told that the closure was driven by the same factors that closed other rural hospitals: low payment rates from Medicare and Medicaid Cover for patients, which formed most of the hospital budget.
Meanwhile, hospitals in urban areas get more payment from their patients who have special insurance, which tends to pay more.
The proposed discounts of Republicans to Medicaid can leave more than 8.5 million non -believers, according to the Congress Budget Office, and they are forced to close more rural hospitals.
Report of Center for Health Care and Promoting Payment I found that 742 rural hospitals are at risk of closing, as more than 300 of them are classified as “immediate risks”.
Courtney’s husband is now at home and fulfills a good performance, but the 87 -year -old said she was concerned that if there was another emergency, they will not reach the nearest hospital now after the Midcoast closed.
Courtney said that while Midcoast was 10 minutes’ drive, the nearest medical center is now more than half an hour.
