Will Affordable Care Act Ultimately Result in Greater Contract Labor?
Two of the driving tenets of the Affordable Care Act are the push for better patient outcomes and reduction of costs. Since labor spend accounts for the largest percentage of acute care expense, it is a prime target for cost cutting.
Donald Trump and Affordable Care
Donald Trump and Affordable Care Act As Donald Trump moves closer to becoming the Republican’s presidential candidate in the general election, there are new ramblings of what he would do to Obamacare if elected. Many arguments have been made against the continuance of this growing governmental entity, but odds are the ACA has already […]
The latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act
Late last year the Supreme Court decided to hear the latest legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act. One item at issue is the Act’s provision to pay health insurance companies subsidies to help offset the cost of out-of-pocket expenses for low income policyholders that purchase insurance through a government exchange.
Manage The Margin Killers in Healthcare Staffing!
In a prior post we discussed two areas that can greatly affect margins in the healthcare staffing world; unemployment and workers compensation. These two components of the cost of labor are directly applied to actual payroll amounts, thus decreasing the gross margin.
State Medicaid Expansion and the 2012 Electoral Map
Last year the Supreme Court ruled on tenets of the Affordable Care Act that withheld Federal funding from states that chose not to expand their Medicaid programs to include many of the nation’s current uninsured. The ruling denied the Feds ability to withhold existing Medicaid funding if the state did not adhere to the Act’s […]
Will your next nurse be a man?
Have you ever wondered what the odds are that you will have a male nurse? If your guess is “not very likely”, you’re right. However, based on census data just released, the odds are growing every year that your next nurse could be a male.
Complicated math for determining demand for temporary labor
As the Affordable care act comes closer to full implementation, multiple factors will combine to assess the impact on the demand for contract labor. It is impossible to determine demand figures using historic data as the ACA has thrown an entirely new set of governing principles into play. When all the new regulations for payment […]
The Affordable Care Act Desperately Needs YOUNG PEOPLE!
As the new math of the Affordable Care Act plays out, insurers and hospitals are scrambling to take advantage of new markets. One of the cornerstones of the ACA was the acquisition of a young demographic from a currently underserved population. There will be substantial fanfare around the country to engage the millions of uninsured […]
American Hospital Association’s “Workforce Roles in a Redesigned Primary Care Model”
In January of this year, the American Hospital Association released a report entitled “Workforce Roles in a Redesigned Primary Care Model.” This document was largely created from a roundtable discussion by nine physician and nurse leaders who were asked to develop some recommendations for hospitals and healthcare systems that would be faced with a paradigm […]
