In recent BRG assessments of healthcare providers, finance leaders often were surprised to learn that transactional and waste activity consumed 60 to 80 percent of their finance team’s time—leaving little capacity for the strategic analysis organizations now urgently need. That gap is becoming harder to ignore. Recent policy changes could reduce US hospital funding by as much as $665 billion over the next decade, intensifying financial pressure as margins shrink and reimbursement headwinds grow. At the same time, hospital and health system merger and acquisition (M&A) activity reached a six-year high in early 2026, driving integration complexity that finance teams must increasingly support.
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Source: https://www.thinkbrg.com/insights/publications/from-closing-the-books-to-driving-the-business/