Labor Costs and Payer Rates Are Still Squeezing Providers’ Margins

New research found that most healthcare CFOs anticipate minimal financial gains this year due to high labor costs and insufficient payer rates. While providers are leveraging more data to improve financial planning, persistent challenges like wage pressures, recruiting difficulties and payers’ increasing use of technology to deny claims continue to strain margins. The post Labor…

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Para trabajadores agrícolas de California, las consultas con médicos mexicanos a distancia llenan un vacío

SALINAS, California. — Este valle costero, que se hizo famoso gracias al novelista John Steinbeck, a veces se conoce cariñosamente como “la ensaladera de Estados Unidos”, aunque la siembra y la cosecha las realizan principalmente inmigrantes de México. Para Taylor Farms, que es uno de los principales proveedores mundiales de ensaladas envasadas y verduras cortadas,…

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Challenges with Effective Price Transparency Analyses

Promoting price transparency in health care is a policy approach with bi-partisan support in Congress and the public at large. This analysis examines the vast troves of price transparency data that payers are required and finds unlikely prices, inconsistencies, and other oddities that pose major challenges for efforts to use it to promote competition and…

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Saving U.S. Manufacturing: Think Biotech, Not Cars

By KIM BELLARD Amidst all the drama last week with tariffs, trade wars, and market upheavals, you may have missed that the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) issued its report: Charting the Future of Biotechnology. Indeed, you may have missed when the Commission was created by Congress in 2022; I know I did….

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