More than 100 rural hospitals have closed in the past decade, according to the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform (CHQPR), a national policy center that works to improve health care payment systems and whose data have been cited by the Bipartisan Policy Center. About one-third of all rural hospitals in the country are at risk of closing because of financial problems. People often blame rural hospital closures on poor reimbursement rates from Medicare and Medicaid. “When you look at the data, what you see is that Medicare and Medicaid are not the problem,” says Harold Miller, president and CEO of CHQPR. “The problem is private insurers.”
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Source: https://time.com/7298891/rural-hospitals-closing-explained-health-care/