Illegal Immigration Forcing Denver Hospital to Turn Away Patients

In 2023, Denver Health provided approximately $136 million in uncompensated care.CEO Donna Lin told the Denver City Council's Finance and Government Committee last week. That figure includes care for people covered by Medicaid when the rates the program paid could not cover the full amount, she said. About $100 million of that money went to people living in Denver. [Emphasis added]

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Last year, Denver Health closed 15 beds that could have been used for patients needing psychiatric or addiction treatment to cut costs.Lin said he cut planned raises and postponed renovations to his oldest clinic as a way to retain employees. [Emphasis added]

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“What I think is not being said is that Denver Health is in a major crisis and we need to address this in 2024,” she said. “We turn away patients every day, especially in the mental health and substance abuse fields, because our costs exceed our revenues.” [Emphasis added]

said Denver Health CEO Donna Lin. post In 2023, about 8,000 border crossers and undocumented immigrants living in Denver made about 20,000 hospital visits, costing local taxpayers millions of dollars in unpaid medical bills.

Lin said illegal immigrants to Denver are “trying to collapse” the city's hospital system.

As Breitbart News has reported, illegal immigration often leaves American taxpayers with billions of dollars in unpaid medical bills and pushes hospital systems to the brink. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates that illegal immigration costs the nation's hospital system at least $23 billion annually.