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Where is the control on new and additional construction and property acquisition. If that were taken out many probably would show a profit. The last two years of actions of StVincent/Ascention is a great example.
Exactly. Ascension is a “non-profit” so they want to ‘reinvest’ any money left over from their operations. They have conveniently blown millions in construction costs with very little actual improvement. My favorite has to be the demo and rebuild of a parking garage only to then demo and rebuild the exact same parking garage less than 5 years later. It’s laughable.
Indiana University Health, which charges the highest hospital fees in the Indianapolis area and is sitting on nearly $9 billion in cash and investments, said it is freezing prices through 2025 to help get in line with national average prices.
https://www.ibj.com/articles/facing-criticism-over-high-fees-and-profits-iu-health-rolls-out-5-year-price-freeze
Under pressure to lower prices and profits, Indiana University Health has quietly donated $416 million to the Indiana University School of Medicine, an amount significantly higher than any contribution it has made to the medical school over the past decade.
Neither the hospital system nor the medical school had formally announced the unrestricted, nine-figure gift, one of the largest in recent years in Indiana.
A leading critic of IU Health said the huge contribution appears to be a way to make the hospital system’s profits drop below $1 billion last year, to $861.5 million, as it faces higher scrutiny from the Indiana General Assembly and other groups for its high fees and large profits.
https://www.ibj.com/articles/under-pressure-to-lower-profits-iu-health-gives-416m-to-iu-medical-school
“ To put the scale of IU Health’s monopoly in context requires digesting some shocking facts. This sprawling firm could give away all its health-care services for free through all of 2022, pay all its bills and employees and would still finish the year with more savings than the entire state of Indiana’s Rainy Day Fund, which is now at record levels.”
https://www.pendletontimespost.com/2022/01/20/michael-hicks-iu-healths-price-freeze-is-a-gimmick/
+1 what Joe B. said
Sounds like our Author is leaving out a lot of facts…
Dan Evans was quoted as never wanting to be the CEO of an “average” healthcare system.
Unfortunately Mr Murphy and the IU Board have too many competing missions and that’s exactly what Hoosiers are facing – average quality, average safety, terrible service and the highest prices.
Perhaps if they would quit building and then shutting down facilities a few years later, that could help.
What about cash investments that the hospitals have. Check out their investments for the hospitals, review how much they are paying to investment advisors to manage the funds, they should use some of those funds for their cash days. Also, they mention revenue is down, try to get an appointment with any of them and see how long a wait you have to just see someone at any of the hospitals.
I guess government money was good during pandemic as all made money then. And it looks like a lot of money was used for land and buildings. I think a thorough investigative effort is needed to determine the real financial status of these hospital systems. Who has not done major building in past two years and/or wasted funds for unused land??
So where’s is this new “study” by the AHA’s favorite consulting firm?