Furloughed health care workers are more likely to get their jobs back, but the May jobs numbers is expected to show an uneven pace of recovery in health care.
Moody's expects the health services sector to recover more quickly than the overall labor market from Covid-related job losses
As hospitals, physician practices and dental offices have reopened for non-emergency care over the last month, it seems a good bet that health-care workers furloughed during March and April will be among those most likely to be recalled by their employers, but the May jobs numbers on Friday may not show much of a snap-back.
, it was a different story in health care. The private sector shed another 333,000 health care jobs in May, bringing losses over the last three-months to more than 2.4 million.Dentistry saw the biggest employment losses in the health care sector care in April, shedding more than 500,000 jobs, but preliminary data from theshow the dental sector could see a healthy bounce back in the May jobs report.
Nearly 28% of mostly small practices surveyed had skipped or deferred clinician salaries by month's end, while more than 35% of practices had laid off or furloughed staff. Just over one-in-five said that bills for telehealth visits had been denied. The full results of the survey will be published Friday.I think it's going to be a hard and slow recovery … those who close due to lack of payment may not be able to return.
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