10 Opportunities & Challenges for Hospitals in 2014

It’s not hard to develop a Chicken Little worldview if you work in healthcare, particularly if you’re sitting in the hospital C-suite. If you don’t catch yourself, it’s easy to think the sky is falling, piece by piece, one day after the next.

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The challenges facing hospitals are daunting, surely. But real leaders know what good they get from doomed thinking: none. It’s an exercise in futility, and real leaders have never cared for pointlessness.

For this, we’re glad. As experts here can attest to, there are some real opportunities behind each of the challenges looking hospital and health system leaders squarely in the eye in 2014.

1. Health insurance exchanges. Hospitals face three challenges regarding the health insurance exchanges. One is lower reimbursement under the exchanges than they would receive from employer-sponsored commercial plans.

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