
For most of the country’s largest nonprofit health systems, 2024 will go down as a year of substantial revenue growth, solid margin improvements and some noteworthy dealmaking.Continued strong demand for inpatient and outpatient care alike kept health systems busy and often looking for ways to expand capacity. Several organizations made progress on patient throughput with swifter discharges, which paved the way for more volumes and revenues while pulling in more revenue per patient thanks to more favorable contracts with payers. | Operating revenues popped across fiscal 2024 as many of the largest nonprofits combined strong demand with capacity increases.