 uncompensated care costs, that is treatment that hospitals never receive payment for, dropped by 26% per year during the first two years of the pandemic, saving hospitals a total of around $125 million. Researchers cite the expansion of MaineCare, Maine's Medicaid program, which broadened its eligibility requirements in 2019 and enrolled an additional 90,000 Mainers by the end of 2021. Dr. Jordan Rhodes of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, who authored the study,