What You Should Know:
– According to Kaufman Hall’s 2025 Health System Performance Outlook, hospitals are facing a “financial trifecta” of rising non-labor expenses, workforce instability, and aggressive payer reimbursement pressures.
– Nearly 60% of health…
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What You Should Know:
– U.S. healthcare organizations continued to face mounting expense pressures at the end of the third quarter of 2025, resulting in persistently thin operating margins despite steady growth in gross revenue.
–…
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What You Should Know:
– A new Strata Decision Technology report on the financial performance of U.S. hospitals and physician groups, drawn from monthly data from over 1,600 hospitals and 135,000 physicians, reveals that health…
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Q2 Hospital Transaction Overview
Hospital dealmaking experienced a significant slowdown during the second quarter of 2025, with healthcare M&A activity reaching historically low levels. According to a comprehensive report from Kaufman Hall, only eight hospital…
Healthcare CFOs expect minimal financial gains in 2025, as high labor costs and insufficient payer rates continue to be major obstacles, according to survey data released last week by financial software company Strata Decision…
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Hospitals’ finances have remained much more stable in 2024 than last year, according to a new report from Kaufman Hall. The report is based on financial data from more than 1,300 hospitals, with the…
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What You Should Know:
– A new report from Strata Decision Technology reveals a significant decline in the number of bariatric surgeries performed in U.S. hospitals in recent years.
– The trend coincides with the rising…
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The following is a guest article by Tom Furr, CEO at PatientPay
Forty percent of U.S. hospitals are losing money, a Kaufman Hall analysis shows, even at a time when overall hospital margins are growing….
Health systems’ financial results so far this year suggest the start of a gradual and sustained recovery, though there are persistent challenges — such as high costs for drugs and supplies, as well as…
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Many healthcare providers saw their revenues, operating margins and patient volumes increase this July, despite the fact that expenses continue to grow, according to a new report from Strata Decision Technology.
The report is based…
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