How All-Payer Global Budgeting Could Help Safety-Net Hospitals Invest More in Community Health

In a new Commonwealth Fund report, a team of experts led by Joshua M. Sharfstein of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health assesses the potential of all-payer global hospital budgeting to further the mission of safety-net health systems. The authors detail the steps to implementing global budgets while also weighing the pros and cons of pursuing global budgeting over alternative value-based payment arrangements.