Safety-net hospitals provide care for millions of vulnerable, uninsured patients burdened by economic hardship. Though they play an integral role in our nation’s health system, these hospitals are ...

Starting in 2027, work requirements kick in for certain beneficiaries on Medicaid, while new work rules for the SNAP food assistance program took effect on Nov. 1. These reforms mandated by the One ...

Safety-net hospitals, or anchor institutions, must reform themselves in addition to any outside aid received from business leaders and government, the presidents and CEOs of Henry Ford Health and ...

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 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed tragic shortcomings in the American public health system, but it also posed a major challenge to our social safety net programs, from Medicare and Medicaid to ...

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 ...

Kaiser Permanente opened its wallet for a $10 million commitment to support a financially struggling Colorado safety net system, according to a Tuesday announcement. Denver Health, a 160-year-old ...

Montefiore Health System, which relied heavily on government aid to stay out of debt last year, is making a risky bet: The Bronx-based safety-net system is proposing to take on four more struggling ...

The president and CEO of a Midwest health foundation relates what she and colleagues have learned thus far from its initiative. Approximately seventy individuals, from hospital and clinic directors to ...

While Florida’s Managing Entities operate with extreme efficiency at a statewide 3% administrative rate, additional ...

Instead of moving forward with a long-promised modernization of its eligibility software, the Missouri Department of Social Services must focus its time and staff toward meeting sweeping federal ...