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Increasing Administrative Costs, Burdensome Commercial Insurer Practices Create Patient Care Challenges
There will always be administrative costs associated with operating a hospital.
Setting the Record Straight: Latest Arnold Ventures-funded Study Draws Many Faulty Conclusions, Including Incomprehensibly Linking Hospital Prices to Increased Suicides
Last week, several academics released a working paper saying hospital prices lead to employment losses outside the health sector, among other faulty conclusions.
Article Misleads on Hospitals’ Charity Care Spending
Learn why it's reckless and wrong to allege that hospitals are deliberately squeezing their charity care spending to maintain financial viability.
RAND 5.0 – The Health Policy Equivalent of Groundhog Day
The RAND Corporation recently released the fifth iteration of its biannual hospital price report. The AHA highlights the significant flaws in this latest iteration.
Hospitals Face Financial Pressures as Costs of Caring Continue to Surge
The AHA’s new Costs of Caring report highlights how hospitals and health systems continue to experience significant financial pressures that challenge their ability to provide 24/7 care for patients and communities.
Costs Rising? A Strategic Partnership Can Offer Solutions
Read a sponsored blog from Owens & Minor to learn how strategic partnerships can help hospitals lower costs, improve supply chain resilience, and improve operational efficiency.
Hospital Financial Health: A Rocky Recovery
Emerging research has confirmed what hospitals and health systems have been saying again and again and again – that 2022 was among the most financially challenging year the hospital field has experienced, and that recovery remains challenging.
Margin Misconceptions: What do Break-even Hospital Margins Mean for Patient Care?
Given the historic financial pressures borne by hospitals and health systems over the last eighteen months, there is tremendous focus on organizations’ margins. Simply put, this metric tells us how an organization’s costs compare to their revenues and is one, but not the only, indicator of a hospital or health system’s financial health.
Recent Study on Pandemic Funding Narrow and Incomplete
America’s hospitals and health systems, regardless of size, location and ownership type, provided essential care to their patients and communities during the pandemic. Congress recognized the critical role hospitals play as the backbone of our health care system and swiftly took steps in the early days of the pandemic to provide support to ensure hospitals would remain resilient.
What a Recent Health Affairs Piece Gets Wrong about Hospital Finances and Charity Care
A recently published article in Health Affairs on hospital finances and financial assistance uses a flawed, debunked methodology to justify preconceived conclusions about how hospitals manage their finances.