Health care law creates funding cuts, challenges for Macon hospital | Business | Macon.com.
Central Georgia Health System Inc. in Macon is facing about $200 million in funding cuts over a 10-year period under the new health care law.
It is one of 1,500 hospitals across the country known as “safety net” providers who care for a large number of uninsured patients
Even though the hospital system will gain a new source of revenue as more uninsured people gain coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government is cutting payments to Medicare and Medicaid programs.
“We are certainly lucky we have a lot of managed care here, but we are the lead tertiary facility for central and south Georgia, and we see a great deal of Medicaid and Medicare business,” said Bryan Forlines, assistant vice president of government relations and reimbursement for Central Georgia Health System Inc., the parent company for The Medical Center of Central Georgia, its rehabilitation facility and home health care program.
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