


Rural Healthcare in the Aftermath of COVID-19: The Growing Costs of Uncompensated Care
The rural healthcare landscape: a snapshot While the entire U.S. healthcare landscape has been deeply altered by the COVID-19 pandemic, rural health systems have been disproportionately devastated by its effects. In fact, hospitals in rural communities have been...
Stubborn Rise in Labor Expense Continues to Clobber Hospital Margins
Gloomy month-over-month report points to higher salaries prompted by nationwide labor shortages. Hospitals hit by the recent Delta surge in the West, South and Midwest experienced the largest year-over-year margin declines for the month. For the second consecutive...
Hospital Revenues Heading Further South
Christopher Fisher, CRCP-I, maxRTE Vice President Business Development Sicker patients, higher labor, supply and equipment costs, and deferred treatment adding up to a 2021 $54 billion loss in net income. Higher costs for labor, drugs and supplies, and continued...
Ask the Expert: Why Insurance Discovery Matters
We’re putting insurance discovery software under the microscope to help you get the full picture, from every angle, about this topic. Since we’ve been helping health care organizations with their financial challenges for many years, we have a handle on the most common...