Health and human service executives are operating with a smaller financial margin for error than at any point in recent memory. Rising labor costs, tighter reimbursement, workforce shortages, and growing competition are forcing executive teams to make difficult decisions while protecting both financial sustainability and consumer access.

A recent survey – New Survey Finds 72%…

With the health and human service field in the midst of major changes in policy, regulation, and practice, both health plans and government agencies are “adjusting” their contracts. This has come in the form of rate cuts, contract cancellations, and grant program suspensions.

For most provider organization executive teams, these reductions in revenue were…

Health and human service provider organizations operate in markets where revenue can change quickly because of rate reductions, funding cuts, policy changes, and competitive procurements. The sudden loss of a major revenue source can threaten staffing, infrastructure, service capacity, and continuity of care.

The immediate response is often to contract the organization’s budget. In some…

For executives of health and human services provider organizations, reimbursement rates are a continuing challenge. The problem used to be that the rates weren’t keeping up with either inflation or the cost of delivering services, particularly when it came to compensation rates for clinical professionals. Now we are seeing more rate cuts.

Last month we…