Support Financing to Ensure Hospital System Stabilization and Sustainability – All Texas hospitals face increased risk with uncertain waiver funding and pending federal health care changes.  While no group of Medicaid hospitals are paid their Medicaid costs; the largest public hospitals in Texas received the lowest Medicaid payments, and the smallest share of costs covered. Reductions in waiver funding for THOT members will trigger negative margins; service reductions and/or increased pressure on property taxes. Health care services and other essential GME, Trauma, and public health services are at risk. 

THOT supports equitable, efficient targeting of scarce funds through:

• Appropriating GR for rate increases and/or providing flexibility for industry-funded rate increases.
• Targeting scarce funds to individual hospitals serving a disproportionate share of uninsured Texans and those on Medicaid.

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