The Iowa Senate has approved a measure allowing some medical facilities to be licensed as "emergency hospitals." This would be especially important in rural areas facing a critical-care shortage.
Over 30 organizations, including the AHA, yesterday urged congressional appropriators to increase funding for the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program to $738 million in fiscal year 2024. While the program trains half of the nation’s pediatricians and 60% of pediatric specialists, it currently receives just 2% of federal spending on graduate medical education.
Washington hospitals lost more than $2 billion last year, but this week reached an early agreement with state lawmakers that would get them more federal dollars and help health care systems out of their growing financial hole.
Cathie Biga, vice president of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and president and CEO of Cardiovascular Management of Illinois, spoke to Cardiovascular Business at ACC.23 to explain some of the challenges she is seeing related to cardiology reimbursements.
WSHA put together an income statement that showed that the state’s hospitals have been operating at a loss for the past two years. Financial losses are totaling billions of dollars for the past two years.