The public health emergency is ongoing and will remain in place past January 11, 2023, putting the popularity of home health and telehealth in the balance. Hospitals continue to see surges, this time from a combination of COVID-19, flu and Respiratory Syncytial Virus; CEOs and CFOs carry on juggling finances, inflation, increased expenses for labor as well as shortages and the need to determine investments in digital health, AI and automation. And, as always, the demand for interoperable systems and price transparency grows.
Here are the Top 10 trends from 2022 that are likely to influence hospital and payer decisions in 2023, according to Healthcare Finance:
- The end of the public health emergency: What happens next?
- Technology, digital health and automation: Strategies to streamline, reach patients and goals.
- Hospital finances: Cutting expenses, where to save?
- The retail competition: Amazon, CVS, Walgreens, UnitedHealth move into primary care.
- Payers: Meeting the Transparency in Coverage rule that goes into effect January 1, 2023.
- Hospital at home checks the boxes: an aging demographic and a less expensive alternative.
- Medicare Advantage: Who’s in, who’s out?
- Telehealth: Fad or future?
- Mergers, acquisitions and partnerships.
- Interoperability for providers and payers. Read more.
