We expect salary wages and benefits supplies and other operating expenses as a percent of revenue to run mostly where we did June year to date. Contract labor as a percentage of salary wage and benefits is projected to be in -- roughly in the mid-4% range in the back half of 2024, a...
The nation’s two largest for-profit hospital chains — HCA and Tenet — increased their EBITDA as salary and benefit obligations became less burdensome in Q1. Unsurprisingly, the story for nonprofit hospitals is a bit different. For this class of health systems, the stress associated with labor...