Financial Trends and Insights From the Top 25 Not-For-Profit U.S. Health Systems - Update: Q2 and Q3 2022
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Alvarez & Marsal’s (A&M) Healthcare Industry Group helps health systems navigate local, state and federal market dynamics. The COVID-19 pandemic, and its accompanying economic and social disruptions, led A&M to investigate the impact of these forces on the healthcare economy. The latest report provides a detailed analysis of the financial and operating performance of the top 25 U.S. not-for-profit health systems, with publicly available datasets, for Q2 and Q3 2022.
A&M publishes this report quarterly to continue to monitor and track the trends driving the health system economy as well as recovery stemming from the unique market dynamics of the pandemic.
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