A major change in health care regulation is causing many South Carolina hospitals to redo plans for expansion and could lead to a flurry of activity from pent up demand, experts and hospital officials said.
The share of Americans who skipped medical treatment last year because of costs rose substantially from the lows of 2020 and 2021, per a Federal Reserve Survey out this week.
Rhode Island hospitals are raising concern over Providence Mayor Brett Smiley's push for legislation that would boost their tax bills, along with those of other nonprofits in the city.
Rural hospitals like Sharkey-Issaquena are increasingly endangered, as poverty, declining populations and dwindling inpatient revenue chip away at profits. In 2020, a record 18 were either closed or converted to outpatient facilities, according to the University of North Carolina’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.
As federal policymakers step up oversight of hospital mergers, more states are taking steps to encourage consolidation in the industry—or to have the final say on whether such moves are anti-competitive.
Weems Memorial Hospital officials came before the county commission Tuesday morning with a financial report that showed some modest improvement over the past year. They left with the commissioners voicing emphatically that they had serious concerns about where things stood.