The Joint Commission just told you to plan for 30 days of downtime. Here's what it costs.
The new AHA / Joint Commission Cyber Resilience Readiness program sets a 30-day cyber outage as the planning benchmark for US hospitals. This white paper puts a dollar figure on that benchmark — using the SEC filings and earnings disclosures of the health systems that have already lived it.
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What's Inside
What you'll take to your next finance committee meeting
The exposure, quantified
Per-day burn rates for UHS, Scripps, CommonSpirit, Ardent, and Ascension, derived from their own filings. The 30-day benchmark isn’t theoretical — it’s the observed median for major healthcare cyber events.
Why the existing stack didn’t prevent any of it
Every organization in the data had backups, disaster recovery, and cyber insurance. Five failure patterns explain why none of it kept clinicians working — including the 95% of healthcare ransomware attacks that target backup systems directly.
The category that closes the gap
Disaster recovery measures time to restoration. Zero-downtime continuity measures whether operations stopped at all. Two categories, two very different cost lines on the filing.
The payback math
Annual contract cost compared against per-day downtime losses, on a community hospital and mid-size system basis. A multi-year contract is recovered in the first 48 hours of a single avoided event.
Who It's For
Written for the people who sign off on the risk
This isn’t an IT paper. It’s a balance sheet paper. If you’re a CFO, CEO, or board member at a US hospital or health system, the CRR benchmark is now the standard you’ll be assessed against — internally and, starting Summer 2026, through the Joint Commission’s certification pathway. The diagnostic is the CRR’s job. The remediation math is yours. This paper does the math.
The IT recovery was not the cost line. The clinical workflow being unable to run was the cost line.
The benchmark moved. Know your number before your board asks for it.
Three questions for the finance committee, the data to answer them, and the remediation math — in a 15-minute read.
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