For more than a decade, large health systems have faced scrutiny for admitting patients to costly hospital stays when less expensive treatments or short periods of observation in the ER would have been appropriate.
Should people who depend on initiatives that are funded in part by the federal government — such as Medicaid — be allowed to sue states when their rights are violated?
The Pennsylvania Department of Health is suspending emergency room services and imposing a ban on admissions at Delaware County Memorial Hospital — effective Nov. 7 — because of alleged "serious violations" of state health regulations, the Philadelphia Business Journal reports.
Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Thursday called for a broad bipartisan deal to protect the solvency of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, popular programs that face serious funding issues over the next few decades.