AXIOS April 26, 2024
Some health systems have recovered from the pandemic much better than others, and those with healthier margins tend to be the ones that made a stronger push into outpatient care.
The big picture: There’s a wildly large and growing difference between the operating margins of top-performing health systems and those at the bottom, according to Kaufman Hall data shared with Axios.
- “The hospitals that are not performing well are performing worse, but the hospitals that are recovering are performing extremely well,” firm co-founder Ken Kaufman told Axios.
- “I would say hospitals that are not doing particularly well … they’re not capturing that outpatient work, or at least not at the level...