From managing non-labor expenses to strengthening the workforce, expanding access and navigating payer reimbursement, health systems shared the key challenges shaping their focus this year—and their planning for the year ahead. Non-labor expense increases, alongside uncertainty related to tariffs, have most respondents (83%) taking steps to quantify the impact of tariffs—and, indeed, many of the hospitals Kaufman Hall interviewed shared they had set up tariff workgroups to manage these increases. Despite these tariffs, however, almost 60% of respondents report non-labor expense increases between 6% to 10% over the past year—similar to the increases noted in our 2023 report.
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