This year’s Match was the highest ever, but fill rates are down in primary care, where shortages are worst. IMGs who frequently help fill these gaps saw their lowest match rate in 5 years.
These policies reflect a broad shift to outpatient care. Health systems will need to align outpatient strategy and site-of-care planning for sustainability under tighter reimbursement.
More than 40% of rural hospitals are operating in the red, with 417 vulnerable to closure and hundreds more discontinuing critical services. Several considerations are critical to strategic planning.
As part of our ongoing analysis of the stability of the rural health safety net, we’ve developed an interactive tool to help rural hospital leadership and those advocating on their behalf to better understand how states plan to utilize RHT funds.
Rural healthcare is at a crossroads. Rural Health Transformation-funded initiatives will support innovation and improve care delivery, but our latest analysis suggests that time is of the essence.
Even as medical schools are innovating to increase the physician pipeline, new financial barriers and J-1 visa delays threaten to worsen the physician shortage and widen existing health disparities.
New policy developments have formed a perfect storm that requires healthcare leaders to quickly build “a bigger boat” to navigate these rough waters. And, maybe, design a different one altogether.
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