When Uncertainty Is The New Normal, Diversify

What keeps health care executives up at night? Looming reductions in Medicaid eligibility and Medicaid reimbursement according to a new survey, Navigating The Uncertainty Of Federal Policy 2025. Of the respondents, 71% describe potential reimbursement changes as “catastrophic” and “devastating”—with tariffs, 340B reform, site-neutral payment expansion, staffing, and inflation all adding to the escalating strategic pressures. After Medicaid, the other strategic concerns are 340B reform (19%), reduction in grant/research funding (15%), and tariffs (13%).

One executive of a hospital system expressed the mood of respondents:;“The biggest impacts are going to be if Medicaid funding is . . .