Resident physicians at Mount Sinai's Elmhurst Hospital in Queens have voted to authorize a strike. The union that represents these residents has noticed significant disparities in Mount Sinai's compensation and benefits when compared to the resident physicians employed at the health system's flagship hospital in Manhattan.
A shift from fee-for-service payment models to value-based models is not an effective way to address the severe financial pressures that safety net hospitals are facing, experts argued at the HIMSS conference in Chicago. One called for a paradigmatic shift “away from cost savings and toward understanding where investments are needed.”
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
Forty-two safety net hospitals recently sued HHS, alleging that the Medicare program “unlawfully withheld and unreasonably denied” DSH payments for decades. The plaintiff hospitals said that HHS' failure to recalculate DSH payments have cost them "tens of millions of dollars in funds that should have been paid to them many years ago."
Still, it's important to understand the needs of safety-net populations, according to a new report from the California HealthCare Foundation.
While countless online practice-improvement resources exist, there is an acute need for help in safety-net primary care, especially as the U.S. healthcare industry slowly shifts away from fee-for-service to outcomes-based care. That is the idea behind the new Primary Care Information Network.
Hospitals are projected to save $5.7 billion this year as previously uninsured patients gain coverage through the 2010 health care law, the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday. States that have expanded their Medicaid programs will s...
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