The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is reshaping hospital economics — here’s what CFOs must do to protect margins, stability, and strategic advantage.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — a major federal healthcare spending and Medicaid overhaul — is being framed politically as fiscal discipline. But from a finance perspective, its policy design threatens to destabilize hospitals’ safety-net role, compress margins, and force CFOs into new strategic terrain well before the deepest cuts materialize.
Here are three lessons every healthcare CFO should grasp from this month’s cover story and the broader financial analysis of OBBBA’s impact.
Marie DeFreitas is the CFO editor for HealthLeaders.