Safety-net hospitals across the U.S. are navigating a confluence of financial and operational pressures. Looming Medicare sequestration cuts, Medicaid funding reductions and the potential expiration ...

Safety-net hospitals face a number of longstanding challenges thrown into the spotlight by COVID-19, from competition with wealthier hospitals to uneven government support. But another challenge is ...

Easing burdens on eligible people participating in government programs can reduce poverty and inequity. This report illustrates the many forms that administrative burdens can take, the serious harms ...

Safety-net providers can benefit from demonstrations of condition-specific and defined-scope-of-practice alternative payment models that account for the nonfinancial as well as financial risks that ...

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 ...

It is time to rethink America’s social safety net. Not because it is broken, but because it is working all too well. The current safety net does what it was designed to do, namely make poverty easier ...

Our new series, "America’s Safety Net," is focused on the complex web of programs meant to help Americans in need. Over the coming weeks, we’ll take an in-depth look at the different forms of welfare ...