Medicare offers extra money to rural hospitals dropping inpatient care

Nurse Candace Myers, center, answers calls at the nurses' station at Lincoln Community Hospital in Hugo, on Colorado's Eastern Plains, on November 25, 2020. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post) — Nurse Candace Myers, center, answers calls at the nurses’ station at Lincoln Community Hospital in Hugo, on Colorado’s Eastern Plains, on November 25, 2020. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

By Meg Wingerter | mwingerter@denverpost.com | The Denver Post

PUBLISHED: January 22, 2023 at 6:00 AM MST | UPDATED: January 22, 2023 at 6:03 AM MST

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Rural hospitals have a new option to get more money from Medicare in exchange for closing inpatient beds, but so far Colorado facilities aren't jumping to take it. Payments would average around $3 million for hospitals offering only emergency and outpatient care.

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Colorado’s rural hospitals could get $3 million a year to end inpatient care. So far, they don’t seem interested.

State regulatory and legislative changes would be needed before any hospitals could participate in federal program

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