Healthcare DIVE August 15, 2018
The first half of the fiscal year was a relative success for the American healthcare industry that, as a whole, was headed toward making more money in the second quarter than any quarter over the last 12 months.
For the biggest publicly-traded hospitals, however, the results were mixedas tenuous volume numbers and political uncertainty were countered by soaring care and service prices, high acuity and an influx of older, more lucrative patients, all coalescing into generally positive bottom lines.