While payers are facing headwinds going into the latter part of this year, the ongoing financial impacts of healthcare’s labor shortage will be felt in the hospital sector far longer, according to a new report from analysts at Moody’s Investors Service. The “acute” impacts of labor issues have tapered off, according to the report, but “the budgetary aftershocks will reverberate for years to come.” The analysts expect that the labor issues will pull down hospitals’ operating results through 2024, if not longer, Fierce Healthcare reports. Read more.
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