National Hospital Flash Report

National Hospital Flash Report: August 2025 Data

KauffmanReport
By Erik Swanson
5 min readSep 8, 2025
Data and analyticsFinancial sustainability

National Hospital Flash Report

Hospital performance is challenged by a decline in patient volumes and operating margins, increases in uncompensated care, and rising expenses, notably non-labor costs.

The latest issue of the National Hospital Flash Report covers these and other key performance metrics.

Author

Erik Swanson

Erik Swanson

Managing Director

Erik Swanson is a Managing Director leading Kaufman Hall’s Data and Analytics Group. His responsibilities focus on building cutting-edge data science tools and leveraging big data to provide deeper and more timely insight, drive operational improvement, and develop thought leadership to help our clients and consultants achieve the most meaningful outcomes. His areas of expertise span artificial intelligence and machine...