MetroHealth to push insurance sign-ups to curb $1M daily charity care costs

Cleveland-based MetroHealth plans to launch an initiative to help patients enroll in Medicare, Medicaid and ACA’s marketplace insurance to reduce its soaring charity care costs that now exceed $1 million per day, a spokesperson for the health system confirmed to Becker’s.  That figure puts MetroHealth — Cuyahoga County’s safety-net hospital system — on track to spend more than $350 million on charity care in 2025. That is hundreds of millions more than what it receives from the county’s health and human services levy, according to Signal Cleveland. 

“MetroHealth is experiencing an unprecedented and unexpected surge in the cost of care it delivers to Greater Cleveland’s uninsured,” the system said in a statement to Becker’s. “Our charity care costs have doubled since 2022 and now exceed $1