Health Affairs This Week is off for a few weeks. We will return for a special episode in December before returning to our regular schedule in January 2025.
For the next few weeks, we present the three-part
A Disproportionate Share, a podcast from
NYC Health + Hospitals's Michael Shen, a primary care doctor and Chief Creative Officer for the medical education podcast
Core IM, as part of the
Health Affairs Pathways show that we published in 2023. We encourage listeners to check out the other series from that podcast.
Unique series were created by fellows at the Health Affairs Podcast Fellowship Program, designed to support early to mid-stage professionals pursue an audio project and tell a unique health care story.
In
A Disproportionate Share,
NYC Health + Hospitals's Michael Shen, a primary care doctor and Chief Creative Officer for the medical education podcast
Core IM, explores the role of safety net hospitals in caring for America's vulnerable populations.
In the second episode, Shen discusses how we pay for essential care for low income patients delivered through our safety net hospitals and the complex patchwork of supplemental payments for such care. He interviews individuals from
America's Essential Hospitals and
NYC Health + Hospitals to explain cost-shifting, uncompensated care, payer mixes, cash on-hand, and more.
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