While other areas of healthcare have been star-struck by sophisticated AI and massive infrastructure investments, safety net entities have found that the answer is much simpler. Better managing chronic conditions across populations simply requires the right connection at the right time. 

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HHS is scrapping its proposed 340B rebate pilot after hospitals sued to stop it. Providers say the plan would have created cash flow problems and administrative burdens that threatened safety-net care.

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Resident physicians at Mount Sinai’s Elmhurst Hospital in Queens have voted to authorize a strike. The union that represents these residents has noticed significant disparities in Mount Sinai’s compensation and benefits when compared to the resident physicians employed at the health system’s flagship hospital in Manhattan.

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A shift from fee-for-service payment models to value-based models is not an effective way to address the severe financial pressures that safety net hospitals are facing, experts argued at the HIMSS conference in Chicago. One called for a paradigmatic shift “away from cost savings and toward understanding where investments are needed.”

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Forty-two safety net hospitals recently sued HHS, alleging that the Medicare program “unlawfully withheld and unreasonably denied” DSH payments for decades. The plaintiff hospitals said that HHS’ failure to recalculate DSH payments have cost them “tens of millions of dollars in funds that should have been paid to them many years ago.”

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