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Taylor County sets FY2025 hospital payment rate at 3.9% to preserve federal matching dollars

Taylor County Commissioners Court · October 22, 2024
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The Taylor County Commissioners Court set the FY2025 mandatory local provider participation fund payment rate at 3.9% of net patient revenue, estimating roughly $28 million in collections to help local hospitals offset uncompensated care.

Taylor County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to set the fiscal year 2025 mandatory payment rate for the county’s Local Provider Participation Fund at 3.9% of net patient revenue.

Matt Gilbert, a consultant for Hendrick Health System, told the court the fund “allows the county to generate funds financed entirely by local hospitals, to access federal matching dollars, to offset some of the costs of care for Medicaid and uninsured patients.”…

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