HKS Affiliated Authors
Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, FAS
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Emergency Department Profits Are Likely To Continue As The Affordable Care Act Expands Coverage. David Cutler, May 2014, Paper. "To better understand the financial viability of hospital emergency departments (EDs), we created national estimates of the cost to hospitals of providing ED care and the associated hospital revenue using hospital financial reports and patient claims data from 2009. We then estimated the effect the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have on the future profitability of providing ED care. We estimated that hospital revenue from ED care exceeded costs for that care by $6.1 billion in 2009..." Link