Health inequities are pervasive across the country, with the health and well-being of Americans too often diverging along racial and ethnic lines.

Safety net hospitals are critical institutions for advancing health equity in marginalized communities. They provide important services – including behavioral health and trauma services – that would otherwise be unavailable in their neighborhoods.

CMS recently reinforced its commitment to prohibiting pooling arrangements. Given CMS’s position, provider groups with pooling arrangements will want to consider alternative approaches.

Our analysis found that hospitals disproportionately serving historically marginalized populations (HMPs) faced financial payment disparities not experienced by other hospitals, a result of both greater reliance on Medicaid reimbursements and less favorable commercial payment rates.

Safety net hospitals play a vital role in serving marginalized communities, however, their efforts to advance health equity are undermined because in many states Medicaid payment rates do not cover costs.

Manatt Health Partners Cindy Mann and Anne O'Hagen Karl co-authored an article for Health Affairs alongside the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program's Heather Howard, in which they discussed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ ...

Manatt Health Partners Cindy Mann and Anne Karl co-authored a Health Affairs article alongside the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program’s Heather Howard discussing the challenges created by current Medicaid budget neutrality policy for Section 1115 ...

Just last month, we discussed a recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) case addressing deceptive practices involving patient privacy. In an extremely important decision in July, the FTC once again addressed privacy concerns in the healthcare sector.In administrative actions brought by the FTC, the ...

In the initial rules governing the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) released in 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) stated that it intended for the MSSP to create a platform for multipayer value-based purchasing. Once nascent accountable care organizations (ACOs) gained ...

Eighty-seven Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the nation’s leading lawyers each year based on a nationwide peer-review survey. 

Eighty-two Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the nation’s leading lawyers each year based on a nationwide peer-review survey. 

Manatt has once again been ranked among the nation’s leading law firms in Chambers’ 2023 USA Guide.

Manatt Health Partner Anne Karl was quoted in Bloomberg Law on the potential upcoming cuts in federal funding for safety net hospitals in light of the latest round of reductions in Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments. According to the article, DSH payments provide supplemental ...