Medicaid covers 52% of medical costs of gunshot wounds in the US. What happens when it is cut?

[jmbar2]

Gun-injury care cost U.S. hospitals $7.7 billion from 2016 to 2021, with Medicaid covering 52% of costs

- Medicaid reimbursement often falls short of treatment costs, leaving trauma centers on the front lines of the gun violence epidemic to absorb losses
- Study authors concerned Medicaid funding cuts could further strain trauma centers
- Costs stayed flat through 2019, then rose 33% from 2019 to 2021, coinciding with a rise in firearm injury during the pandemic

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/09/safety-net-hospitals-carry-the-highest-cost-of-gun-injuries?fj=1

[hlthe2b]

1. Medicaid not Medicare---important distinction...

[jmbar2]

4. corrected - thanks!

[leftstreet]

2. MediCAID n/t

[MineralMan]

3. MEDICAID, not Medicare.

It's a very, very important difference. Medicaid is a completely different organization and funded completely differently. Medicare covers gunshot wounds ONLY for Medicare recipients, and they are the least likely demographic group to have those injuries.

Please try hard to get this correctly when you post. It matters. It's not just a spelling error.

[jmbar2]

5. corrected - thanks!