Rural hospitals bank on outside investors

Enticed by such outsiders, some struggling rural hospitals around the country have embraced lab billing for faraway patients as a rescue plan.

By Barbara Feder Ostrov, California Healthline | June 04, 2018 at 10:40 AM

now bankrupt aging loved ones Gertz Related: Hospitals are merging to face off with insurers

Looking for salvation

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A sad decline

a median income of about $30,000 Hill-Burton Act report report fired suspended inspection Modoc County Record

A white knight, vanished

website management agreement documents “abandoned” dogged by allegations Mississippi Florida Oklahoma Missouri lawsuits audit called for a federal investigation has maintained put itself up for sale. National Alliance of Rural Hospitals

A new savior?

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This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation.

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