Impact Of Insurance Expansion On Hospital Uncompensated Care Costs In 2014

In September 2014, the federal Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation(ASPE) published an ASPE Issue Brief summarizing research on the effect of the major health insurance coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the drivers of uncompensated care (UCC) and on hospital UCC costs. ASPE defined UCC as the unreimbursed cost of the care provided by hospitals to people who are uninsured, underinsured, or in some cases publicly insured. For the purposes of this report, ASPE defined hospital UCC costs as the combined total of bad debt and . . .