Picture a county of 15,000 people where the nearest hospital is 45 miles away and that hospital has just announced it can no longer sustain a 24-hour emergency department. Not because the community stopped needing emergency care, but because the reimbursement structure that kept the facility operational has been cut below what it costs to […]

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