by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 24, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
A new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analysis is the latest to sound alarms over rural hospitals’ finances in the coming year, especially if those hospitals are operating in the 11 states that haven’t opted to expand Medicaid. KFF found median operating margins...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 23, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) leaders say the agency has handed out nearly 500 warnings to hospitals falling short on price transparency as of January and plans to streamline enforcement and standardize hospital reporting requirements. Enforcement...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 16, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Workforce hurdles such as personnel shortages were the top headache for community hospital CEOs in 2022, outweighing the longtime go-to of financial issues for a second consecutive year in the American College of Healthcare Executives’ latest annual survey. The...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 14, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Kaiser Permanente closed out 2022 with an operating loss of $1.3 billion and a net loss of nearly $4.5 billion, according to a press release with the system’s top-line financials released Friday. A $4.2 billion rise in operating expenses, despite the $2.3...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 9, 2023 | Providers
A new study predicts that rural hospital closures will increase in 2023 as COVID-19 pandemic relief dollars erode. The study found nearly 51 percent of rural hospitals have a negative operating margin, and the number of facilities eliminating services like obstetrics...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 7, 2023 | Providers
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled in favor of the Texas Medical Association’s (TMA) motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit opposing certain components of the surprise billing rule. The TMA filed this lawsuit in September alleging the...
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