Welcome to BlueBin's Financial Focus newsletter! We're excited to bring you insights on the intersection of finance and healthcare, specifically how supply chain dynamics impact financial performance. Tailored for those on the finance side of healthcare, this newsletter will provide valuable analysis and strategies to help you navigate the complexities of healthcare finance. Stay tuned for expert insights and actionable tips to enhance your financial decision-making!
Industry News
Learn what's happening in the financial side of healthcare.
Association of Healthcare Journalists:Medicaid cuts will cost hospitals billions in lost revenue annually, reports show Cuts to Medicaid under the 2025 budget reconciliation law will strip more than $1 trillion over 10 years, driving at least $24 billion in annual hospital revenue losses, disproportionately hitting rural facilities and forcing many to reduce services, lay off staff, or close.
Federal COVID-19 relief funding shored up hospital margins and reduced borrowing, but it did not translate into increased staffing, patient care improvements, or measurable gains for Medicare beneficiaries—raising questions about how future emergency aid should be structured.
CMS finalized a 2.6% payment increase for acute care hospitals in 2026 (about $5 billion total, including $2 billion more for disproportionate share hospitals), but rising expenses, ongoing policy shifts, and mandatory bundled-payment models like the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) model pose continued financial and operational risks—especially for rural and smaller facilities.
BlueBin Client Success Story
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The OSU Wexner Medical Center achieved 7–8% supply cost savings, eliminated costly stock-outs and rush orders, freed significant space, and absorbed new responsibilities without added labor costs—delivering ongoing, scalable financial gains.
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Healthcare Organizations now have access to real-time disruption signals from NOAA, NASA, USGS, and openFDA. But data alone isn’t enough.
This guide shows how to fuse those feeds with clinical context—mapping SKUs to CPT codes, automating substitutions, and protecting procedures before impact hits.
Explore the framework that’s helping hospitals gain a 72-hour lead time on disruption.
Note: BlueBin’s mission is to transform healthcare by enhancing the supply chain process, ensuring that patient care staff have the right supplies at the right time, and maximizing efficiency. In line with this mission, BlueBin advocates for and supports the AHRMM Keys for Supply Chain Excellence. By focusing on improving inventory management, optimizing supply chain processes, and minimizing waste, we aim to reduce costs, accelerate operational efficiency, and enhance clinical outcomes throughout the continuum of care. The AHRMM Keys for Supply Chain Excellence serve as key performance indicators (KPIs), establishing essential standards for supply chain management in the healthcare field. Learn more about the AHRMM Keys.
Article summary: Nonprofit hospitals have inched back toward positive margins, but with performance still below pre-pandemic levels and looming Medicaid cuts ahead, many systems remain only a step away from renewed financial strain.
Did you know? BlueBin helps nonprofit hospitals stabilize fragile margins and prepare for looming Medicaid cuts by reducing supply chain waste, lowering procurement costs, and increasing operational efficiency through real-time Kanban execution, automated SmartScan ordering, and analytics dashboards that surface spend, utilization, and vendor performance opportunities.
Financial Tip
Eliminate Hidden Expired Inventory Costs
Leverage BlueBin’s Cones dashboard and real-time item status tracking to flag soon-to-expire or slow-moving supplies across every location, enabling proactive substitutions, vendor returns, or reallocation—turning wasted stock into reclaimed value and preventing silent margin erosion.
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