Becker's Healthcare August 23, 2023
About half of U.S. hospitals ended 2022 with negative margins — and 2023 has brought its own financial challenges.
Here are six statistics on the cost of medical care for ASC leaders to watch:
1. The costs of carboplatin and cisplatin — lifesaving chemotherapy medications — have skyrocketed, forcing some hospitals to pay five to 10 times more than before the drugs were reported in short supply in the U.S. Clinics in Florida, for example, have seen prices on carboplatin jump from $29 to $365 per vial and cisplatin from $39 to just under $200 per vial.
2. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, which include Ozempic and Mounjaro, cost between five and to 10 times more in the U.S. than...
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