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Preparing for generations of Medicare growth
by Gist Healthcare, Sep 24, 2021
The healthcare industry is now at the peak of the long-awaited transition of the Baby Boom generation into Medicare. The “greying” of the Boomers will…
Taking stock of a decade of Medicare ACOs
In this week’s graphic, we showcase recent data from Health Affairs highlighting the progress made by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) flagship value-based payment initiative, the Medicare Shared Savings…
CMMI increased Medicare spending in its first decade
In this week’s graphic, we highlight the recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of the budgetary impact of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), which has gotten off to a…
Increased expenses, especially labor, impacting hospital margins
Workforce shortages, supply chain disruptions, expensive new drugs, and high inflation have all greatly increased hospitals’ expenses. These rising costs are the top cause of the tenuous state of hospital margins today.…
Uneven operating margin recovery for national health systems
Using data from Kaufman Hall’s latest National Hospital Flash Report and publicly available investor reports for some of the nation’s largest health systems, the graphic below takes stock of the state of…
Health “insurtechs” struggling to stay relevant
“Insurtechs” Clover Health, Oscar Health, and Bright Health all went public in the midst of the hot equity market of 2021. Investors were excited by the fast growth of these health insurer startups, and…
Epic expanding its lead on EHR competitors
Two large nonprofit health systems made headlines earlier this month announcing that they plan to transition, enterprise-wide, from Oracle Cerner to Epic for their electronic health record (EHR) system. Using data from KLAS…
Behavioral health utilization driven by fast-growing telehealth use
The pandemic worsened the existing mental health crisis in the United States, greatly increasing demand for care. In this week’s graphic, we highlight new data from JAMA Health Forum on mental healthcare trends from…
Private equity-backed practices flexing market share muscle
This week we showcase data from a recent American Antitrust Institute study on the growth of private equity (PE)-backed physician practices, and the impact of this growth on market competition and healthcare prices. From…
Hospital volumes shifting to outpatient and home-based settings
The pandemic accelerated the outpatient shift, which had been progressing steadily for decades, into a new gear, as safety-minded consumers avoided inpatient settings. Using the latest forecasting data from strategic healthcare…
Spotting a “skills mismatch” in the nursing pipeline
While last week’s graphic looked at how a wave of retirements has hit the nursing workforce, this week we take a look at the pipeline of nurses in training to fill that…
