Industry Trends

According to a report from the American Medical Association, the number of physicians working in private practices decreased by 13 percent between 2012 and 2022.

Analysts expect that the labor issues will pull down hospitals' operating results through 2024, if not longer.

In the first quarter of this year, 17 healthcare companies with more than $10 million in liabilities filed Chapter 11.

Health systems are expected to continue to identify cross-market mergers with like-minded systems as they aim to generate economies of scale as a tool to fight elevated expense pressures, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings. 

Economists and industry experts say a recession could be the cooldown healthcare needs to slow wage growth and tap into a larger talent pool. 

Private equity firms still see home-based care as an investment area filled with opportunity.

More than 88% of hospital chief information officers and other IT leaders plan to increase their investments in third-party technology in 2023-24, according to a new poll from IDC and sponsored by Redox.

Analysts warn new threats to bottom lines may be on the horizon.

More than three years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, only 1% of primary care clinicians surveyed by the Larry A. Green Center and the Primary Care Collaborative believe their practice has fully recovered.

Physician staffing firm American Physician Partners (APP) will shutter at the end of the month, the second such staffing group to fall in recent months, according to reports