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How Does Health Care Ruling Affect Hospitals?

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Good morning -- -- Grady memorial that public hospital treats more than 100000.

Uninsured patients in a year last year that cut treatment amounted to it.

Toward 200 million dollars in un reimbursed cost many of those charges are passed on.

To local tax -- but the Affordable Care Act would change that listen.

A third of the patients we take care of -- Grady have no insurance whatsoever and because of that have limited access to health care.

And so for those individuals now they will have my payment sort.

But Grady CEO John hopper says the uninsured tend to delay treatment so as more people get access to health insurance.

There could be unprecedented.

Demand.

On hospitals nationwide so those hospitals need to prepare -- again.

So how do you accommodate the demand without overloading the system.

-- public health advocates say you need to take the pressure off the emergency rooms for far too many Americans they're using the ER.

As their primary care they say instead.

You need to devote more attention to preventive care Emory University is testing one program that pays primary care doctors nurses and even trained office staff.

To check up on patients by phone or email in between office visits to monitor chronic conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure listen.

It.

You can recognize those signs early enough and jump on them early enough regardless of the kind of office practice that you have.

You might be able to keep the patient from ever needing to go to the emergency room.

This model called the patient centered medical home is more costly on the front end but advocates believe in the long run it'll save money by preventing.

Treatable conditions from turning into it very expensive hospital emergencies -- again.

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