Forbes December 12, 2023
A broken U.S. healthcare delivery system will start next year in much the same way it began this one–in critical condition–as it wrestles with self-inflicted wounds that were decades in the making.
Covid-19 is well behind us, but it has left a painful legacy. With more than a million American lives lost, and hospitals and health systems left financially devastated, it all should have been a sobering wake-up call to providers that the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) payment system on which they relied was no longer sustainable. But as we look at what’s happening across the healthcare delivery landscape now, it is both evident and unfortunate that most executives have not learned this lesson.
According to our Numerof & Associates 2024...