Girding for a painful round of state budget reductions, the Georgia Hospital Association is trying to turn the sharp side of fiscal cuts in another direction. Being discussed internally by GHA officials is a controversial bed tax proposal that would funnel federal matching dollars into hospitals with a disproportionate charity care load. Under the proposal, hospitals would pay into a fund according to the number of beds per facility. The dollars would then be used to draw down a federal match.
Posted by Editor at October 17, 2003 10:42 AM