NSG 6021 Unit 4 MN507- Topic 1: Cost Shifting

Unit 4 MN507- Topic 1: Cost Shifting Identify health care policies that use cost shifting. Argue the benefits of cost shifting. How might the Affordable Care Act decrease cost shifting within hospitals? Health Care Policies That Use Cost Shifting Examining cost shifting in healthcare gives reference to policies associated with physicians, hospitals, pharmacies and private payers. Cost shifting is securing funds by charging higher fees to insured payers for services that are uncompensated from other governmental or uninsured payers (Wu, 2010). Providers cost shifting is made up from charging commercial payers a higher fee to make up for the low reimbursement from the government Medicare and Medicaid payers. Hospital cost shifting is due to self-p