When I started my first healthcare staffing agency over two decades ago, it began in a tiny office with payroll that was funded by my prior company stock options. In our hurry to generate revenue, we were anxious to earn business from anyone that would listen to us, and populate our
Nashville, TN – Aug. 3, 2016 – Industry leading software unveils its highly anticipated version featuring its groundbreaking margin calculator and advanced pay-package along with even more features
Two of the driving tenets of the Affordable Care Act are the push for better patient outcomes and reduction of costs. Since labor spend accounts for the largest percentage of acute care expense, it is a prime target for cost cutting.
Donald Trump and Affordable Care Act As Donald Trump moves closer to becoming the Republican’s presidential candidate in the general election, there are new ramblings of what he would do to Obamacare if elected. Many arguments have been made against the continuance of this growing governmental entity, but odds
Late last year the Supreme Court decided to hear the latest legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act. One item at issue is the Act’s provision to pay health insurance companies subsidies to help offset the cost of out-of-pocket expenses for low income policyholders that purchase insurance through a government
In a prior post we discussed two areas that can greatly affect margins in the healthcare staffing world; unemployment and workers compensation. These two components of the cost of labor are directly applied to actual payroll amounts, thus decreasing the gross margin.
Last year the Supreme Court ruled on tenets of the Affordable Care Act that withheld Federal funding from states that chose not to expand their Medicaid programs to include many of the nation’s current uninsured. The ruling denied the Feds ability to withhold existing Medicaid funding if the state did
Have you ever wondered what the odds are that you will have a male nurse? If your guess is “not very likely”, you’re right. However, based on census data just released, the odds are growing every year that your next nurse could be a male.
As the Affordable care act comes closer to full implementation, multiple factors will combine to assess the impact on the demand for contract labor. It is impossible to determine demand figures using historic data as the ACA has thrown an entirely new set of governing principles into play. When all
