In the underfunded basement of a public hospital in the Bronx, a data analyst named Carmen stared at a spreadsheet. On paper, she worked for "Population Health." In reality, she was a digital janitor.
Carmen’s screen glowed with the case of a man she’d code-named "Mr. Vega." Mr. Vega had congestive heart failure. According to the DSRIP "Angel" metric, if he went 90 days without being hospitalized, his primary care clinic earned a $5,000 performance bonus. dirty angels dsrip
But Mr. Vega lived in a shelter. He had no refrigerator for his diuretics. He washed his one pair of socks in a gas station sink. In the underfunded basement of a public hospital
The auditor grunted and moved on. The DSRIP payment went through. Mr. Vega got a housing voucher three weeks later (paid for by a different program). But Mr