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Hospitals confront mounting reimbursement challenges and …
网页2023年11月30日 — Escalating reimbursement delays and declining cash reserves are placing hospitals and health systems across the nation in a precarious financial predicament, according to data from Syntellis Performance Solutions' analysis of 1,300 hospitals.. The findings, published in partnership with the American Hospital Association, underscore the …
Moody's upgrades healthcare outlook from negative to stable for …
网页2023年11月9日 — Moody's Investors Service has revised its 2024 outlook for the not-for-profit and public healthcare sector to stable from negative, driven in large part by a decrease in labor costs.. While hospitals will continue to grapple with high expenses because of a shortage of skilled labor, particularly nurses, Moody's predicts that the growth in …
Employers look to dodge cost-shifting in midst of rising expenses
网页2024年10月3日 — WTW's 2024 Best Practices in Healthcare Survey found that U.S. employers project their healthcare costs will increase by 7.7% in 2025, compared with 6.9% in 2024 and 6.5% in 2023. As a result of this uptick in costs, employers are reaching beyond traditional cost-shifting strategies to improve healthcare affordability and employee health.
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网页Improving the Patient Financial Experience Throughout the Patient Journey While many healthcare providers believe that improving the patient financial experience is a critical step for their organization, few have done so successfully. Read this brief to learn strategies that increase patient ...
Healthcare organizations increasing IT investments
网页2023年9月14日 — Technology and IT has emerged as an important strategic priority for healthcare institutions, with a new Bain and Company report showing that providers are increasingly accelerating their spending on IT and software. Nearly 80% of healthcare executive respondents in the new survey increased spending materially over the past …
Hospital spending is projected to increase by 9.3% this year
网页2023年10月12日 — In 2023, aggregate hospital spending is expected to increase by 9.3% due to a rebound in utilization and higher prices due to rising labor costs. Starting in 2025, hospital spending is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 6% as hospitals transition away from pandemic-related use and spending. Across all payers, per-enrollee …
Healthcare private equity deals hit $90B in 2022
网页2023年4月10日 — Photo: detraphiphat/Getty Images. Private equity in healthcare saw its second highest year on record in 2022, closing on roughly $90 billion worth of deals, according to a report from consulting from Bain and Co. Despite a slowdown caused by macro-economic and geopolitical forces in the second half of the year, 2022 was still the …
Financial challenges spurring healthcare merger and acquisition ...
网页2023年10月16日 — Hospitals and health systems have been under extreme financial pressure since 2022, when median operating margins remained in negative territory for the full year. And while the picture has improved somewhat this year, these challenges spurred about a third of the hospital and health system merger and acquisition activity in the third …
HFMA: The top issues facing CFOs | Healthcare Finance News
网页2024年7月2日 — LAS VEGAS - Value-based care and reimbursement challenges, higher costs and especially margin improvement were on the minds of CFOs who spoke about their top concerns during a panel discussion at the HFMA Annual Conference here last week.. CFOs Michael Allen and Robin Damschroder, who head finances for large health …