A report released Thursday found that Alabama healthcare providers will be among the most negatively impacted nationwide should certain Affordable Care Act premiums expire.

The report conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation projects billions of dollars in lost revenues for healthcare providers alongside uncompensated care spikes if Congress allows ACA enhanced premium tax credits to expire at the end of 2025.

Enhanced premium tax credits, or ePTCs, are federal subsidies for health insurance enacted by the American Rescue Plan Act and extended by the Inflation Reduction Act.

The credits have been administered yearly since 2021 through the ACA’s Health Insurance Marketplace; however, they are currently set to expire at the end of 2025.

RWJF’s report, prepared in collaboration wit

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