Increased charity is one of the reasons and of course there is the pressure from Medicare and insurers to limit rate increases, but many insurers are on their way to China as posted in prior articles here. There is also the big loss of federal funds, just look at us here in California for a quick...
Words of reality quoted by this hospital CEO, "There are too many variables involved until we go line item by line item", and that is certainly one big challenge as well. Many hospitals have active fund drives in place as well as other sources of creating additional revenue compensation...
Every industry has what is called a “business model’ and different industries can all learn from each other on marketing techniques, practices, etc. to create a proof of concept, but the one industry that is different is healthcare. I guess if you wanted to call clinical trials a “proof of concept” I...
There’s a lot of focus this week on the Medicare reductions, but in California there’s also the Medi-Cal cuts. Already it is very difficult to find physicians who will still take Medi-Cal today, that battle through attrition has already be done, but the biggest potential losers in California are...
The article states this should have been addressed 10 years ago..which is true…but this is today, so we need a plan, a budget, and some new politicians for that sake! If an all over sales tax of a few pennies is needed, then so be it to help finance health care, and get the private insurers profits...