May 8, 2020
| Today's news and insights for healthcare leaders
Note from the editor
As the pandemic continues to upturn our daily routines and work schedules, especially for healthcare workers, our leaders here at Industry Dive are giving us today off as respite from this new reality.
So today we're bringing you a special edition of our daily newsletter, focused on the novel coronavirus and its impact on the healthcare industry so far.
We're highlighting the pieces that step back and ask relevant questions about how this pandemic will alter the healthcare landscape in the future, from certificate of need laws to the shift to value-based care and independent family practices.
Readers can also delve into the latest layoffs and furloughs among the nation's largest health systems and see how hospital capacity varies across the country by examining the places with the most people per bed — the data may surprise some.
We're working hard to bring you the most important insights in healthcare during these unprecedented times. Thank you for reading.
Samantha Liss
Reporter, Healthcare Dive
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The nation's largest private payers stuck by their earnings outlooks for the full year, raising questions about why executives are confident about their prospects despite being in the middle of a public health crisis.
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Healthcare Dive analyzed data to paint a picture of hospital capacity, pinpointing areas with a higher ratio of people to beds and signaling where there is a risk for capacity issues.
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Many hospitals are temporarily or permanently reducing the size of their workforce as they grapple with depleted revenues and the thorny question of when they can return to normal operating capacity.
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Independent practices have resisted selling to hospitals amid years of provider consolidation, reimbursement cuts and more, leaving them with razor-thin margins. Now, they worry COVID-19 could send them off the financial cliff.
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With desperate New York City health systems turning to dormitories, parking lots and Central Park to construct emergency hospital beds, the laws spurred by the federal government may face further pushback.
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Most systems already operate on relatively thin margins, with little room to handle a downswing, much less the pandemic that has now caused more deaths in the U.S. than any other nation.
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"Public health is spending time digitizing the information, rather than being able to immediately analyze and act upon it," Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, said.
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"This is not about managing a population. This is about doing everything you can to keep these people alive," Dean Ungar, vice president of Moody's Investors Service, told Healthcare Dive.
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