Accounting & Financial Management

Despite an end-of-year upswing, about half of U.S. hospitals finished 2022 with a negative margin, data shows.

Most plan to evolve their traditional services through in-home services, virtual care and remote patient monitoring.

<p>WHO Digital Health and Innovation Department director Alain Labrique discusses on the department’s mandate, its meaning for member states and how they can invest to strengthen their health systems.</p>

<p>Nioura Ghazni, a partner in the corporate practice group of Sheppard Mullin’s San Francisco office, says that hospital leaders have to focus on streamlining mission and operations, adding revenue streams, and avoiding regulatory risk.</p>

While the profit decline was significant, Elevance maintains that the numbers still beat expectations from Wall Street.

<p>Cyber Defense Labs CEO Robert Anderson, Jr. talks about federal technology resources and policy, engaging the private sector and how cyberinsurance may respond to the rate and frequency of ransom payments.</p>

Focus on what you can control, say Alvarez and Marsal Managing Directors Peter Urbanowicz and Martin McGahan.

<p>Risk-based contracts let providers consider the whole individual, rather than focus on billing for services, according to Jaja Okigwe, First Choice Health CEO.</p>

The change reportedly includes executive job cuts.

Operating margins have been hit hard over the past year due to cost inflation, particularly staffing, finds Fitch.