by Tony Chen

If this didn't already start in your hospital three months ago, it will start soon enough. In order to survive the coming year or two of increasing bad debt, increasing charity care, other reimbursement cuts, declining elective surgery volumes, more complex delayed-care stuff showing up in the ER, and decreasing philanthropy, it is time for the serious business of cost-cutting.

What is your hospital planning? Where do you look first to cut costs? The real question is, where do you look that you haven't already?

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