Becker's Healthcare November 2, 2022
Three ASC leaders joined Becker’s to discuss the financial losses providers are seeing in 2022:
Philip Louie, MD. Medical Director of Research and Academics at the Center for Neurosciences and Spine at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (Seattle): We are seeing major health systems post astronomical financial losses in 2022. Short staffing, burnout and hospital capacity are compounding the ongoing obstacles that we struggle with as we work toward reversing these mounting losses. With growing pressures to produce financial and volume targets with limited — and temporary — resources, there will be an enormous focus on producing quantity of work. I worry that all the work that we have accomplished in building value-based care pathways, developing quality-based programs and academic pursuits...