Hospitals and health systems have been struggling with mounting cost pressures, and they probably aren’t going to see much relief in the months ahead. The median operating margins for health systems were 1% in August, according to data from Strata Decision Technology released last week. And that’s not an anomaly, as operating margins have hovered around 1% through much of 2025. Steve Wasson, chief data and intelligence officer for Strata Decision Technology, tells Chief Healthcare Executive® that he doesn’t expect to see much improvement in operating margins in the near future.
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