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The OBBB’s Medicaid work requirements and the hidden risks for hospitals

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By Bart Richards, Cedrial Moore
| Healthcare Financial Management Verified
The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), passed this summer, contains a provision of great consequence for hospitals: Medicaid work requirements. The new law requires a subset of beneficiaries to log at least 80 hours of employment, volunteering or schooling each month to maintain coverage. The changes carry significant administrative and reputational risk for health systems. And they could be costly.
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How Orlando Health stemmed healthcare costs by eliminating unnecessary clinical process variation

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By Thomas Kelley, Donna Jansen, Bart Richards, Nick Radice
| Healthcare Financial Management Verified
A six-step initiative by Orlando Health in central Florida to eliminate avoidable variation in healthcare delivery reduced the health system average length of stay (LOS) by roughly 0.75 days, while yielding a corresponding financial benefit of about $1.2 million. Variation in healthcare delivery is necessary to some extent because of the need to tailor interventions to each patient’s unique circumstances.
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