What’s in Store for Healthcare CFOs in 2021? Healthcare Trends and Predictions 2021
The changes for healthcare in 2020 were significant and many. As a CFO, if you’re feeling a bit exhausted by change, you are not alone. As we enter the New Year, what challenges will healthcare organizations face?
2021 Healthcare Trends and Predictions
The following three predictions were published recently by Brian Bogie, Director of Healthcare Industry Marketing at Sage Intacct.
- Cost control will be paramount in 2021, and Activity-Based Cost Accounting will be business-critical in a post-COVID world
- Healthcare will adopt a Doordash model for delivery of their services: whether these “Hospital at Home” healthcare organizations will succeed depends on how they get paid – and from whom
- HIPAA and security breaches will become a greater issue for healthcare organizations
Familiar, perennial challenges still need to be addressed
The most common struggle for healthcare CFOs that we see is the challenge of consolidations for multi-entity, multi-location organizations. Healthcare CFOs must contend with:
- Expansion of facilities and service lines across regions and states
- The varying and changing nature of accounting rules as regulatory frameworks evolve
- Emphasis on growing the business through both organic new ventures or by acquiring others
- Increasing inter-relationships and inter-company activities between entities within the parent company
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