Importance Medicare's Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) program will provide a
health equity adjustment (HEA) to hospitals that have greater proportions of patients dually …

Longstanding racial and ethnic disparities in health care experiences and outcomes exist
and contribute to inequitable health and life outcomes in the United States (AHRQ 2022; …

Importance The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) caused substantial changes in
hospital operations. The net effect of these changes on hospital financial performance is …

Hospitals in the US are increasingly subject to government regulations intended to improve
the quality of care for patients with sepsis. Examples include the Centers for Medicare and …

Purpose To examine whether hospital closure is associated with high levels of area
socioeconomic disadvantage and racial/ethnic minority composition. Methods Pooled cross …

Policy Points The US health care system faces mounting pressure to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change; motivated institutions and an …

The COVID-19 pandemic created a broad array of challenges for hospitals. These
challenges included restrictions on admissions and procedures, patient surges, rising costs …

Background: The United States (US) and other countries rely on systems of private
negotiations between insurance companies and hospitals to set hospital prices. To shed …