ACA Impact Foreseen, Hospital Charity Care Mandate Proper, Court Says

Mealey's (March 17, 2021, 1:16 PM EDT) -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) reduction in the number of uninsured was foreseen in 2010 when California and a health care company attached charity care conditions to the sale of a hospital and the state did not err in declining to modify the requirement, a California appeals court said in affirming denial of a petition for writ of administrative mandamus March 15....