hospital outpatient volume

Looking Ahead to Health Care in 2025

How will hospitals fare in 2025? With a new president and new majority in the House, change could be coming in the health care world, especially for hospitals. In a wide-ranging overview at the possible changes to come, Fierce Healthcare looks at several important measures of hospital finances, including margins, changes in payer mix, outpatient volume and revenue, discharges, credit ratings, labor costs, and supply and drug costs. It also considers potential policy changes, including changes in health care premium subsidies, future Medicare rate changes, the federal government’s potential role in health insurers’ denials of care, and the need for [...]

2025-01-07T14:12:00-05:00January 8, 2025|Federal Update, hospitals, Medicare, News, Pennsylvania Update|

Hospital Outpatient Visits Down

For the first time in 35 years, hospital outpatient volume declined in 2019. Despite the trend toward delivery of more health care in outpatient settings, hospitals saw fewer outpatients in 2019 as more people turned to urgent care settings and other clinics for outpatient services. Much of the decline was in emergency room visits, with patients also turning to urgent care facilities for non-emergency services they traditionally sought in hospital ERs. Despite the decline in volume, hospitals saw their net outpatient revenue rise 4.5 percent in 2019. Learn more about what is happening to hospital outpatient volume in the HealthCare [...]

2020-01-15T11:46:35-05:00January 15, 2020|hospitals|
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