Accounting & Financial Management
Hospitals have not seen "a dime" of federal funds to address the Delta and Omicron variants, AHA says.
Providers earned almost $321 million in shared savings by improving quality and reducing costs in the program's first three years.
Across all practices, the median revenue amount from value-based contracts was $30,922 per provider.
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In July 2022, overall prices grew 8.5% from the previous year, but prices for medical care increased only 4.8%.
The AHA wants Congress to halt Medicare payment cuts and extend or make permanent certain waivers, among other requests.
This projection is more than double the 3% increase to healthcare budgets that employers experienced from 2021 to 2022.
Some extremely low QPAs bear little to no resemblance to the actual in-network rates in a given geographic area.
Severe volume disruption to operations appears to be waning, but expense pressures are still elevated and pronounced.
The majority of bad debt now is associated with patients with insurance, contributing to the net revenue challenge for hospitals.