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Table of Contents
Why the savings estimate is a lousy market size
The hospital basement is open for business
Buying nursing home beds that can actually reopen
Birth tissue consent is a hospital operations business
Rural hospital geography is a payment variable
What happens when the reporting goes away
Anesthesia and transplant are worth watching before they are worth pricing
Abstract
The proposed Medicare and Medicaid CARE rule could change what hospitals can install, which nursing home buildings can reopen without expensive renovation, and how participating hospitals and critical access hospitals that provide obstetric care handle birth tissue consent. The strongest opportunities have identifiable buyers. Hospital facilities departments can buy engineering, commissioning, and recurring inspection services. Nursing home operators can finance acquisitions with more certainty about which rooms can stay in service. Maternity units can pay to move routine education out of the delivery room and get consent, pathology, and specimen release into the same workflow. The rural hospital provisions combine an enacted exemption that applies to four facilities identified by the agency with a broader clarification that could help hospitals plan specialty partnerships. Anesthesia supervision, nursing home clinician scope, and transplant certification are still requests for comment. Those are interesting markets today, with some potentially valuable changes down the road.
