We, too, are horrified by the betrayal of America’s social safety-net systems perpetrated by dozens of individuals in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

America’s broken safety net system has over 80 programs, costs $1.6 trillion annually, and perpetually underperforms. It’s inefficient, costly, and perversely functions like a snare net that traps ...

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 ...

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 ...

Health technology navigators share perspectives on barriers to and facilitators of digital health access for older, linguistically diverse patients in a Los Angeles safety-net system. Objectives: ...

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 ...