AXIOS April 26, 2024
Caitlin Owens

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...

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Topics: Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Survey / Study, Trends
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