Health Policy Essentials
by America's Essential Hospitals
A podcast from America's Essential Hospitals that explores hot topics for hospitals in health care policy, with a focus on safety net care.
Copyright: America's Essential Hospitals 2023
Episodes
340B Savings: A Lifeline for Essential Hospitals
15m · PublishedEssential hospitals operate on narrow margins and rely on indispensable programs, such as the 340B Drug Pricing Program, to stay out of the red. In this episode, learn about what the program is, who it serves, and how the savings it produces are used to support eligible hospitals’ communities and patients.
Site-Neutral Policies Disproportionately Harm Essential Hospitals and At-Risk Communities
14m · PublishedEssential hospitals operate large ambulatory networks to bring care to people where they live and work. These clinics often are the only source of primary and specialty care for underserved people. This reach into communities is key to ensuring continuity of care for patients who face health risks due to lack of transportation, housing insecurity, and other social factors. But so-called “site-neutral” payment policies threaten that care by making clinic expansion financially unsustainable.
The Push to Designate Essential Hospitals
13m · PublishedVarious classifications for hospitals exist; however, essential hospitals, often those serving a safety net role, do not have a federal definition. These hospitals care for an underserved patient population and facilitate access to quality health care for all in our country. Various stakeholders see an acute need for such a definition to help decision-makers navigate the complex hospital landscape. In this episode, three health policy experts will describe the need for and momentum behind a federal designation for essential hospitals. Learn more at essentialhospitals.org.
A Looming Crisis for Hospital Safety Net Funding
11m · PublishedCongress faces a Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government and act on other urgent matters — none more important to the safety net than stopping an $8 billion cut to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments. The cut — two-thirds of all federal DSH dollars — would jeopardize access to care for low-income patients and destabilize essential hospitals, key safety net providers. In this episode, three experts on these hospitals and Medicaid will describe the potential impact of DSH cuts and bipartisan support in Congress to avert this looming threat. Learn more at https://protectmedicaid.org/.
Health Policy Essentials has 4 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 54:43. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on September 14th 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 21st, 2024 23:10.