Price  Kentucky’s Attempt to Fix System
*The Key is switching the terms of “negotiated rate” to “revenues”.
 
*Revenues are averaged out by Medicaid and Medicare Payments. 
 
*If a hospital has 75% of their patients with Medicare and Medicaid, we estimate the private sector would have to pay 3 times above the state mean before this criterion is met.
*Even so, there is also the “Existing Hospital Protection Clause” were the CON is not granted unless all hospitals in all surrounding counties also meet the criterion. 
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