MESH enables healthcare providers to effectively respond to disasters and remain viable through recovery. In addition to connecting public sector officials to hospital leadership, providing unique education, planning, and healthcare intelligence services, MESH is committed to disseminating sophisticated legal and policy analysis relative to emergency preparedness and disaster response.

The delivery of healthcare in the United States is a sophisticated and complex enterprise. Legal, financial, and policy barriers and opportunities add to this complexity and create uncertainty for healthcare providers in the private sector who are responsible for community medical care.

Through collaborative efforts with its various working groups, MESH researchers work to identify and provide objective analytical and descriptive analyses of the most pressing disaster-related policy issues facing coalition members. All of our analytical work supports our mission to enable healthcare providers to respond effectively to emergency events, and remain viable through recovery. A healthcare providers or institutions are only valuable to the community in an emergency if their business operations run smoothly and operating revenue continues to flow into the organizations. Hospitals and healthcare providers will have enough to worry about in a disaster without having to worry about the sustainability of the revenue cycle or regulatory uncertainty. MESH partners with local, county, state and federal officials to tackle some of the most complex regulatory, policy, legal and financial issues impacting successful hospital preparedness.

Research briefs are regularly provided via the MESH website and through our monthly email newsletter. Current research efforts address the concept “Crisis Standards of Care” and the availability of reimbursement for hospital services provided during a disaster at alternate care sites.