- Around 43% of working-age grown-ups were deficiently safeguarded in 2022, meaning they were either uninsured, had an inclusion hole in the previous year or had unreasonably expensive inclusion, as per a District Asset study out Wednesday.
- Once providers are more adequately reimbursed, payers will attempt to pass cost increases onto employers and consumers, potentially making medical coverage more expensive, according to industry observers
- Mike Slubowski,?COO and president of Trinity Health, an 88-hospital nonprofit system spanning 25 states,?said on a call Sept. 15 with the American Hospital Association that payers aren’t factoring inflation and labor shortage costs into contracts.?
- “We’re a large system and we’re getting 2%?to 3%,” Slubowski said.?“And some of those contracts have been locked in for a few years and they won’t reopen them.”
