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Following the US Senate Finance Committee’s recent white paper on Medicare physician payment reform, the graphic shows how Medicare payments to physicians have not kept pace with inflation.

After peaking in 2021, the average hospital’s registered nurse (RN) turnover and vacancy rates in 2023 have nearly returned to 2019 levels, at 18 percent and 10 percent respectively.

With the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issuing a final rule that would ban noncompete agreements nationwide, the graphic below is our attempt to categorize the current status of complex state noncompete laws that affect physicians.

With Walmart’s announcement last week that it plans to shutter its Walmart Health business, this week’s graphic takes stock of the company’s healthcare delivery journey over nearly the past two decades.

This week’s graphic highlights data from the Department of Health and Human Services on the increased number of cyberattacks hitting healthcare providers.

Following this week’s news of Kaiser Permanente’s Risant Health subsidiary closing its acquisition of Geisinger, the graphic below provides a framework for thinking about health system scale.

In this week’s graphic, we use data from Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report and Syntellis Market Insights to assess the current state of hospital operating margins.

This week’s graphic features our assessment of the many emerging competitive challenges to traditional health systems.

A new study from the American Cancer Society revealed a startling phenomenon in colorectal cancer: cases are trending younger while the severity of diagnoses is increasing.