America's Essential Hospitals says MedPAC's MSNI ignores the costs of uncompensated care, and care to Medicaid beneficiaries. Safety net hospitals say the wording of the Medicare Payment Advisory ...

Safety-net providers can benefit from demonstrations of condition-specific and defined-scope-of-practice alternative payment models that account for the nonfinancial as well as financial risks that ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and electronic health record–based automation tools helped a safety-net health system meet performance-based readmission metrics, thereby retaining critical funding while ...

While all low-income individuals and families, particularly those of color, struggle to avoid falling into poverty, some receive less support solely because of where they live. The economic crisis ...

The health care safety net—the patchwork of hospitals, clinics, and health systems that provide care to significant numbers of uninsured, underinsured, and publicly insured patients—provides a ...