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Eliminating Bad Debt Reimbursement to Hospitals Serving Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries

JAMA Network Open 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.26402

August 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This cross-sectional study reports the prevalence of and factors associated with bad debt eligible for Medicare reimbursement among US hospitals.

Corresponding Author: Jason D. Buxbaum, PhD, MHSA, Brown University School of Public Health, 121 S Main St, Providence, RI 02903 (jason_buxbaum@brown.edu).

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