Becker's Healthcare November 7, 2022
CMS payments designed to help hospitals cover the costs of uncompensated care and improve health outcomes are not fully reaching underserved communities, researchers wrote in a Nov. 4 letter for JAMA Network Open.
The researchers, from Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, hypothesized that hospitals in counties with disproportionately Black populations were not receiving enough payments to meet the needs of the populations they serve.
These disproportionate share hospital payments are often tied to healthcare use, the...
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