HIMSSCast: The financial toll of COVID-19 for health systems

Christopher Kerns, Advisory Board’s Vice President, Govt Insights, joins Jonah Comstock, director of Information Enhancement and the Health care Finance News crew, Running Editor Susan Morse and Associate Editor Jeff Lagasse, for a dialogue about what this pandemic usually means for healthcare facility base traces, how they are surviving, and how they need to be getting ready for a re-opening of elective and nonessential strategies.

Articles mentioned in this episode:

Hospitals furlough workers, decrease medical professional salaries waiting around for CARES Act funds

Hospitals get more $20 billion infusion of CARES Act funds

U.S. hospitals are suffering economical injury due to COVID-19 pandemic, Kaufman Hall finds

COVID-19 might completely change the telehealth landscape, from reimbursement to utilization

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