The CFO Performance Partnership
How does reimbursement for inpatient behavioral health services stack up?;Those services are reimbursed at an average of 34.3% less than the cost to provide them. And, on average, those service lines have a net loss of 34.1%. (This compares to -19% and -15% of costs for inpatient pulmonary services and infection disease treatment, respectively.);The same analysis found that outpatient behavioral health services were reimbursed at 31.7% less than the cost of providing those services (see America’s Hospitals And Health Systems Continue To Face Escalating Operational Costs And Economic Pressures As They Care . . .