Health Affairs Eyes the Safety Net in August - Aug. 14, 2012

Health Affairs’ August edition (subscription required) focuses on the safety net’s current challenges, including the following topics:

• The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion – how states will proceed after the Supreme Court’s decision and access challenges for Medicaid beneficiaries
• Care coordination and the innovative approaches safety net hospitals have undertaken to improve it
• The financial performance and governance of safety net hospitals and the fiscal challenges those hospitals will face in the future