Hospitals and health systems are exploring tactics to avoid charity care cuts as they face the possibility of billions of dollars in expected program cost increases. The need for charity care, which ...
Congress should enact legislation to require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to evaluate transitioning to a single modern procedure coding system to eliminate excess costs and lower ...
Trust in the U.S. health-care system is at "at an all time low," according to Dr. Toyin Ajayi, Cityblock Health CEO, whose company serves Medicaid and Medicare populations across U.S. states. But she ...
Throughout 2025, the federal government and several state healthcare systems advanced new restrictions on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Health systems scaled back or closed equity offices. Federal ...
Yet American health care has in the past proved resistant to treatment from disrupters. In 2008 Google, a search colossus, ...
The U.S. health care reimbursement system was built for a different era — one that prioritized high-stakes “cure” interventions over the nuanced “care” interventions better suited to the ongoing needs ...
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Health systems are responding to fragmented behavioral healthcare delivery in different ways: expanding telepsychiatry in rural states, building pediatric health hubs that integrate mental and ...
Imagine being discharged from the emergency room after a severe asthma flare-up, only to return to a home located near factories or congested roadways that heavily pollute the air. Or having your ...
Administrative costs account for almost a quarter of total US health care spending. Other nations spend a much smaller share (of their much smaller spending) on administrative costs. While high ...
Health systems are turning to ambulatory strategies in response to patient expectations for convenience, workforce shortages and financial pressures, according to a new report from the Center for ...