New Hampshire Hospitals Seek Restoration in Medicaid Budget Cuts

January 12, 2012

Hospitals looking for relief

Ten New Hampshire hospitals are looking for and injunction to restore the $130 million in budget cuts by the state. New Hampshire officials say that no legal grounds exist for the injunction citing the hospitals have not demonstrated irreparable harm to patients and that if restored would cause a fiscal crisis in the state. More on this article can be found in the January 11, 2012 NAHU Newswire.

Reported in the January 12, 2012 NAHU Newswire is a story about healthcare consumption. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reports that 1percent of Americans accounted for 22 percent of healthcare costs in 2009 and that five percent accounted for 50 percent of healthcare costs.

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