As the COVID-19 emergency declaration expires, health care providers and payers face challenges that existed before COVID but were accelerated by the pandemic.
According to George Hill, managing director of Deutsche Bank, the health care industry is facing the same increased costs, inflation, staffing issues, and supply chain problems that other industries are dealing with.
“From a health system perspective, they’ve been hit from all sides,” said Hill.
Hill was part of a webinar hosted by the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Care Policy, “Wall Street Comes to Washington health care roundtable.” The April 11 online meeting was the 27th event designed to “bridge the worlds of Wall Street and Washington health policy,” according to the Brookings website….