History has shown that while healthcare is more open to adopting technology to improve outcomes, bureaucracy, ego, money, or indifference to change still tend to get in the way. Technology is not our only problem unfortunately, healthcare has so many more. In this article, I put together some statistics that show we still have a long way to go to make healthcare more accessible to everyone. Here are the 25 shocking statistics that keep healthcare executives up at night. Medicare reimbursements declined by 9% The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission found that hospitals experienced a -8.5% margin on Medicare services in 2020, and it projects that margin will fall to -9% in 2022. Combined underpayments from Medicare and Medicaid to hospitals were $100 billion in 2020, up from $76 billion in 2019. 46% of Federally Qualified Health Centers are troubled by rising competition CEOs of federally qualified health centers do not feel equipped to manage revenue cycle issues stemming from g