Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page › Last page Last Effectively Leveraging Your Organization’s Advanced Practice Providers Health system leaders can no longer afford to think of APPs as extenders or expensive scribes. They must work to effectively integrate APPs across clinical settings and develop the operational and financial data points needed to monitor the efficacy of that integration. Article Can You Afford Your Employed Physician Group? It’s Time to Rethink Your Portfolio The employed physician model is coming under stress at many health systems. Given the growing financial pressures that health systems face, they must rethink how they are deploying scarce financial resources and physician talent across the enterprise. Article What Can Patient Access Leaders Learn from SpaceX? A five-step design process used by the SpaceX engineering team provides a framework for healthcare leaders seeking to transform how patients access their health system. Article Gist Weekly: March 1, 2024 Change Healthcare’s systems go down after a cyberattack, and UnitedHealth Group faces a federal antitrust probe. Blog Gist Weekly: February 23, 2024 Walgreens’ VillageMD exits the Florida market, plus two notable mergers between health insurers have been called off. Blog The Physician Employment Model, Continued Hospital executives have given the physician employment strategy considerable thought. Here are four observations from healthcare leaders who are rethinking the physician employment model. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Rethinking Healthcare Economics: The Power of Advanced Practice Providers with Matthew Bates On a new episode of The Healthcare Plus Podcast, host Quint Studer and Matthew Bates discuss the financial pressures facing healthcare industry leaders today and discuss strategic solutions to improve create alignment and improve margins. Podcast The Hospital Makeover—Part 2 The physician employment model is clearly broken and in need of a near-term fix. The critical question for health system leaders is how to reconsider physician employment within the hospital operating plan. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Reevaluating Service Line Strategies in Light of Operational Realities The many operational and financial headwinds that are buffeting health systems should prompt leadership teams to revisit the strategic direction, goals, and performance of their service... Article Physician Flash Report: January 2023 America's providers are more productive and seeing more patients than ever—particularly in primary care settings—resulting in an increase in revenue in the last quarter of 2022. However, increased expenses outweighed improved revenue. Research Report Taking a Fresh Look at Affiliation Options for Physicians and Health Systems Health systems and physician practices—both independent and employed—could benefit from taking a fresh look at their affiliation options. Many health systems , responding in part to a... Article Preparing for Risk-Based Contracting and Value-Based Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities In a roundtable discussion, Kaufman Hall Managing Directors Matthew Bates and Nora Kelly and Senior Vice President Max Timm discuss the rise of risk-based contracting in value-based healthcare arrangements, what providers and insurers need to watch out for, and what success in risk-based contracting will look like. Article Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page › Last page Last
Effectively Leveraging Your Organization’s Advanced Practice Providers Health system leaders can no longer afford to think of APPs as extenders or expensive scribes. They must work to effectively integrate APPs across clinical settings and develop the operational and financial data points needed to monitor the efficacy of that integration. Article
Can You Afford Your Employed Physician Group? It’s Time to Rethink Your Portfolio The employed physician model is coming under stress at many health systems. Given the growing financial pressures that health systems face, they must rethink how they are deploying scarce financial resources and physician talent across the enterprise. Article
What Can Patient Access Leaders Learn from SpaceX? A five-step design process used by the SpaceX engineering team provides a framework for healthcare leaders seeking to transform how patients access their health system. Article
Gist Weekly: March 1, 2024 Change Healthcare’s systems go down after a cyberattack, and UnitedHealth Group faces a federal antitrust probe. Blog
Gist Weekly: February 23, 2024 Walgreens’ VillageMD exits the Florida market, plus two notable mergers between health insurers have been called off. Blog
The Physician Employment Model, Continued Hospital executives have given the physician employment strategy considerable thought. Here are four observations from healthcare leaders who are rethinking the physician employment model. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Rethinking Healthcare Economics: The Power of Advanced Practice Providers with Matthew Bates On a new episode of The Healthcare Plus Podcast, host Quint Studer and Matthew Bates discuss the financial pressures facing healthcare industry leaders today and discuss strategic solutions to improve create alignment and improve margins. Podcast
The Hospital Makeover—Part 2 The physician employment model is clearly broken and in need of a near-term fix. The critical question for health system leaders is how to reconsider physician employment within the hospital operating plan. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Reevaluating Service Line Strategies in Light of Operational Realities The many operational and financial headwinds that are buffeting health systems should prompt leadership teams to revisit the strategic direction, goals, and performance of their service... Article
Physician Flash Report: January 2023 America's providers are more productive and seeing more patients than ever—particularly in primary care settings—resulting in an increase in revenue in the last quarter of 2022. However, increased expenses outweighed improved revenue. Research Report
Taking a Fresh Look at Affiliation Options for Physicians and Health Systems Health systems and physician practices—both independent and employed—could benefit from taking a fresh look at their affiliation options. Many health systems , responding in part to a... Article
Preparing for Risk-Based Contracting and Value-Based Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities In a roundtable discussion, Kaufman Hall Managing Directors Matthew Bates and Nora Kelly and Senior Vice President Max Timm discuss the rise of risk-based contracting in value-based healthcare arrangements, what providers and insurers need to watch out for, and what success in risk-based contracting will look like. Article