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Hospital finances broke even in April amid a continuing trend of high expenses and the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement of the COVID-19 public health emergency

Our latest report uncovers emerging workforce spending trends.

Hospital finances improved slightly in March as hospital leaders navigate high expenses and economic pressures. While margins continue to stabilize, they remain below pre-pandemic levels—leaving hospitals in a vulnerable position should a recession or new public health emergency arise.

Physician and provider productivity is on the rise as patients continue to reengage and seek out care that was put off during the pandemic.

With limited sources of funding, hospitals and health systems rely on financial reserves to maintain their financial stability and support their growth. These reserves ensure that hospitals and health systems can continue to serve their communities through good times and bad.

In conversations with hospitals and health system leadership across the U.S., most management teams express the same goal: get back to breakeven. For many, the road to breakeven will be bumpy with gains and setbacks along the way.

On an episode of Gist Healthcare Daily, Kaufman Hall co-founder and Chair Ken Kaufman joins the podcast to discuss his recent blog that examines whether there are parallels for health system leaders to ponder about whether their traditional strategies are beginning to age out.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, California hospitals and health systems have taken unprecedented steps to care for their communities amid significant pressure on staff and resources.

Hospital finances are beginning to stabilize as razor thin margins become the new normal. The high level of variance that plagued hospital margins over the past three years is beginning to subside among pricing and inflationary pressures affecting expenses.

Faculty practice plans are complex entities; the addition of a community physician group adds to that complexity. The question for academic health system leadership is whether and when to combine the faculty and community physicians into a single entity.

All organizations, including America’s hospitals and health systems, need to confront the fact that no strategic plan lasts forever.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Kentucky hospitals and health systems have taken unprecedented steps to care for their communities amid significant pressure on staff and resources.