Hospitals Blame Nurses For Increasing Costs

Hospitals Look to Raise Treatment Costs as Nurses’ Salaries Increase – Health insurers and employers are pushing back against requests to increase hospital prices by as much as 15%…..

By Melanie Evans

May. 8, 2022

Some hospitals grappling with rising nurse salaries are seeking to raise prices by up to 15%, touching off contract fights with health insurers and businesses and threatening higher premiums.

HCA Healthcare Inc. and Universal Health Services Inc. are among the hospitals asking health plans to pay them more for care to offset mounting nurse costs.

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