This summer, the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers expects to release, for public comment, a draft of the first U.S. consensus standard addressing ...

The standard provides design guidance to help mitigate low-probability but high-consequence disproportionate collapses, such as the 1995 destruction by a truck bomb of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal ...

Welcome back to Health Affairs Pathways, the podcast fellowship program from Health Affairs. In 2023, we have two exciting seasons for listeners, one on safety net hospitals and another on palliative ...

Last week, the Supreme Court released a decision relating to how the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requires hospitals to calculate its disproportionate share percentage. While this ...

A recent report from the Alliance for Integrity and Reform of 340B found that 85% of disproportionate share hospitals in the U.S. received more from 340B profit than they invested in charity care in ...

Embedded with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is Section 1203 (pdf), which covers what will happen to disproportionate share hospital payments under healthcare reform. DSH payments, ...