In the final days of state budget negotiations, more than a dozen Democrats in the State Senate have begun pushing a proposal that would upend how hospitals serving large numbers of low-income patients are funded.
Nonprofit hospitals and their dedicated staffs have spent the past three years heroically battling COVID-19.
Now, these same hospitals that cared for so many of us and our loved ones – at great financial and emotional expense – are under attack from legislators who are being misled by special interest groups, which stand to gain from their misguided efforts.
The Oregon Health Authority has firmly rejected Legacy Health's request for a waiver that would give the hospital system permission to close the birthing center at Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center.
Senators and health care stakeholders alike seemed unable to find much agreement Wednesday on how to address Indiana’s health care costs, or even how to measure and compare those costs to neighboring states.
Critical decisions are pending before courts and legislators in 2023 that promise to shape the future of the 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program), which provides discounts on outpatient drugs for certain health care providers, referred to as covered entities. The resolution of these issues will have an enormous financial impact on the health care industry, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, 340B hospitals, and federal grantees.
The No. 1 answer to why the South suffers from low credit scores turns out to be medical debt. The South has a lot more unpaid medical bills than other regions.