In this week’s graphic, we highlight nearly 30 years of historical data from Kaufman Hall and the American Hospital Association to provide a broader perspective on hospital operating margins.

Amid increased bipartisan interest from policymakers on the nation’s increasing medical debt burden (estimated to total at least $220B), this week’s graphic examines who holds medical debt and how recent changes to credit reporting have affected them.

In this week’s graphic, we use data from Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report and Syntellis Market Insights to assess the current state of hospital operating margins.

In this week’s graphic, we take stock of both the evolving usage and employer coverage of GLP-1 drugs, specifically for weight loss.

In this week’s graphic, we highlight the most recent data from software and analytics firm Strata Decision Technology to assess how hospital volumes have changed since 2022.

Using the latest data forecast from Sg2, a Vizient company, the graphic below illustrates how the outpatient shift will continue to accelerate through 2034.

In late April, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established new staffing standards for long-term care (LTC) facilities, mandating a minimum of 3.48 hours of nursing care per patient per day, with 33 minutes of that care from a registered nurse, at least one of whom must be always on site.

In honor of Pride Month, the graphic highlights the inequities many members of the LGBTQ+ community report facing when accessing healthcare services.

In this week’s graphic, we take stock of digital health funding and the fate of several digital health startups that went public during the funding boom of 2021.

This week’s graphic looks at the plethora of state-level mergers and acquisitions (M&A) oversight laws that are now in place, part of a recent trend that adds further scrutiny to healthcare consolidation.

Following the US Senate Finance Committee’s recent white paper on Medicare physician payment reform, the graphic shows how Medicare payments to physicians have not kept pace with inflation.

A new study from the American Cancer Society revealed a startling phenomenon in colorectal cancer: cases are trending younger while the severity of diagnoses is increasing.