Government has a history of slashing provider payments for government health programs; Medicare and Medicaid reimburse providers less than the cost of delivering care, AHA says.
When travel and wait times were quantified using hourly wage to measure "economic cost of time spent" the costs averaged $89 billion dollars annually, the analysis said.
UConn Health incidents stemmed from illegal access to employee email accounts; UW Medicine detected a vulnerability on a website server that exposed protected internal files.