Another possible unintended consequence:
In an analysis of three years’ worth of key performance measures, these hospitals fared worse at baseline than hospitals with fewer Medicaid patients, and they had significantly smaller improvements thereafter, suggesting a grim reimbursement fate if the model becomes more widespread.






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