Delta variant destabilizes healthcare planning: With the spread of the more contagious delta variant, Covid-19 cases spiked almost 70 percent in the last week (www.washingtonpost.com/…covid-cases-rising/). The public health crisis continues…
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While the COVID-19 pandemic flooded hospitals with patients in 2020, healthcare systems did not benefit financially. In most businesses, more customers mean more money. In the case of hospitals, those…
2021 is here and with a new year, there’s word of COVID-19 vaccines making their way throughout the United States. While rollout is slower than expected, about 5 million people…
Medicaid expansion has affected hospitals’ finances. This is according to research found in a study conducted by the Urban Institute. The data used was collected from the American Hospital Association…
Reducing costs is important in any industry, but especially in the healthcare field. While reducing costs is currently a top priority for healthcare CFOS, the lack of sufficient data and…
Recently, additional hospital bankruptcies have hit the news. With the pandemic still raging on and emergency rooms and wards becoming overcrowded, you’d think that hospitals would have a steady flow…
Payment denials, especially those issued by commercial health insurance companies, can add up over time. They not only cost you money, due to the person-power required to collect on those…
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, hospitals have begun to make some changes. We’ve discussed how many have made plans to expand, closed their doors, or laid off staff, depending on…
Since the beginning of the year and the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, 18 hospitals in the United States have closed. This illustrates just how much the health care industry…