The financial state of hospitals is not encouraging. Some issues cited in the January OR Manager include: reduced Medicare reimbursements, increased patient volumes, and inability to obtain credit, with 50% of hospitals in the US already approaching insolvency. One suggestion for countering these economic pressures was to increase surgical volume by making ORs "so attractive to physicians that they will switch their allegiance from another facility."
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