Cost Cutting Is The Agenda For Hospitals With Or Without Sequestration

6 Key Observations On Sequestration and Hospitals by Jim McLaughlin.   Beckers Hospital Review.  February 27 2013.

This summary of recommendations from Huron Consulting Group contains some startling recommendations, such as that hospitals should reduce their cost structure 20-40% with or without sequestration.  Perhaps even more startling is the proposal that hospitals be able to make margins on Medicare reimbursements, which many hospitals view as impossibly low.