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Call It Deferring Services or Self-Rationing, U.S. Consumers Are Still...
Patients in the U.S. have been self-rationing medical care for many years, well before any of us knew what “PPE” meant or how to spell “coronavirus.” Nearly a decade ago, I cited the Kaiser Family...
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Hospitals Continue to Lose Money in Year 2 of the Pandemic
U.S. hospitals’ operating margins went negative in January 2021 after turning north for the first time in December 2020 since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the February 2021...
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Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned
The coronavirus pandemic exposed weaknesses in the U.S. health care system that existed before the public health crisis. What lessons can be learned from the COVID-19 stress-test to build American...
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New Primary Care, Retail and Tech Entrants Motivating Hospitals to Grow...
Rising costs, generational shifts, digital transformation, and fast-growing investments in new health care models and technologies are forcing change in the legacy health care, noted in the State of...
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A Negative Outlook for US Hospital Margins Through 2021
In the fourth quarter of 2021, U.S. hospital margins will still be lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaufman, Hall & Associates project in their latest read on hospital finances. Kaufman...
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Medical Distancing Is Bad For Your Health
“Social distancing is great. Medical distancing? Not so much,” I observe in Medical Distancing in America: A Lingering Pandemic Side Effect., my essay published this week in Medecision’s Liberate...
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The Patient As the Payer: Self-Pay, Bad Debt, and the Erosion of Hospital...
“The odds are against hospitals collecting patient balances greater than $7,500,” the report analyzing Hospital collection rates for self-pay patient accounts from Crowe concludes. Crowe...
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The Direct Link Between Value-Based Health Care, Digital Transformation and...
Only 4% of health care payments in the U.S. are pure fee-for-service (FFS) these days. “The end of pure FFS is near,” according to The State and Science of Value-Based Care, a report-out of survey...
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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?
What happens to a health care ecosystem when the volume of patients and revenues they generate decline? Add to that scenario a growing consensus for a likely recession in 2023. How would that further...
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Integration is the New Innovation for Healthcare in 2023: Reflections on...
The peak of venture investment for digital health was in 2020 and 2021, precipitously declining later in 2022. And the outlook for 2023 is practical and Show-Me: that is, demonstrate clinical outcomes...
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