Enhanced COVID-19 Provider Relief, Hospital Finances, and Care for Medicare Inpatients.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Congress appropriated $178 billion in emergency relief for health care providers (hospitals, physicians, and other health care professionals) in 2020 to stabilize finances and support the COVID-19 pandemic response. The US Department of Health and Human Services directed $35 billion of these funds to safety-net hospitals and high-impact hospitals using strict criteria. However, the importance of enhanced funding is inadequately understood.

Objective

To evaluate the association between enhanced COVID-19 relief funding and hospital finances and clinical care for Medicare inpatients.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used a differences-in-discontinuities study design with overlap weighting. Nonrural hospitals with data on costs

SUBMITTER: Buxbaum JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11889469 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature