Community Benefit
The IRS requires hospitals to spend on community benefit but doesn't specify what type, for what purpose or how much.
Arkansas, Florida, Missouri and Nevada are all experiencing big surges, due principally to the Delta variant and low vaccination numbers.
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting data shows 95 hospitalizations and one reported death, out of 12.5 million doses administered.
The AHA and FAH contend that the scale achieved through hospital consolidation can lower costs and improve access.
Of those 20 health equity committees, only eight included minority group representatives.
If vaccinations remain below the threshold needed to achieve herd immunity, hospitals may be dealing with COVID-19 patients indefinitely.
Expansion did not lead patients receiving care at safety net hospitals to transfer their care to non-safety-net hospitals.
The grants are part of several initiatives by Optum to address maternal health outcomes and disparities across the U.S.
The Michigan provider organization has been keeping COVID-19 patients at home – and recording a 95% satisfaction rate among patients in the program.
The agency also issued a rule meant to speed the shift to value for home-based services.