Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Payer Trends Health Systems Should Watch Closely in 2024 Health system leaders focused on the day-to-day needs of their organization can sometimes lose sight of key developments in other sectors of healthcare. But in an interconnected healthcare ecosystem, understanding the trendlines their payer counterparts are facing is an essential task. Article Building Skilled Nursing Relationships to Improve Hospital Length of Stay To successfully reduce length of stay, health system management will need to combine performance improvement efforts with efforts to successfully align themselves more closely with skilled nursing providers. Article The Updated Merger Guidelines’ Impact on the Healthcare Sector The DOJ and FTC recently released proposed updated merger guidelines that, if finalized in similar form, will increase the degree of difficulty associated with mergers and acquisitions. Learn more about the legal and strategic implications for healthcare organizations. Article Partnerships Go Bold as Organizations Face New Challenges At a transformational moment for not-for-profit healthcare, recent trends in partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions indicate that hospitals and health systems are exploring increasingly bold strategies to meet new challenges. Article Strategic Alternatives for Health System Outreach Laboratories Various industry pressures have accelerated an evolution of laboratory businesses in recent years, with particular impacts on labs owned by health systems. As a result, many systems are... Article Senior Living at a Crossroads: Organizations Reassess Their Role in an Evolving Industry As the Baby Boom generation completes its transition into senior status—the entire generation is expected to reach retirement age by 2030—operators of senior living facilities will need... Article 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 Less Can Be More: New Considerations for Hospital and Health System Partnerships The year 2022 is proving to be the most challenging financial year of the COVID-19 pandemic for hospitals and health systems, with lagging volumes, rising expenses, and limited... Article Addressing the Behavioral Health Crisis Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the U.S. was already facing a behavioral health crisis. Since the pandemic began last year, the magnitude of that crisis has grown: Approximately... Article
Payer Trends Health Systems Should Watch Closely in 2024 Health system leaders focused on the day-to-day needs of their organization can sometimes lose sight of key developments in other sectors of healthcare. But in an interconnected healthcare ecosystem, understanding the trendlines their payer counterparts are facing is an essential task. Article
Building Skilled Nursing Relationships to Improve Hospital Length of Stay To successfully reduce length of stay, health system management will need to combine performance improvement efforts with efforts to successfully align themselves more closely with skilled nursing providers. Article
The Updated Merger Guidelines’ Impact on the Healthcare Sector The DOJ and FTC recently released proposed updated merger guidelines that, if finalized in similar form, will increase the degree of difficulty associated with mergers and acquisitions. Learn more about the legal and strategic implications for healthcare organizations. Article
Partnerships Go Bold as Organizations Face New Challenges At a transformational moment for not-for-profit healthcare, recent trends in partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions indicate that hospitals and health systems are exploring increasingly bold strategies to meet new challenges. Article
Strategic Alternatives for Health System Outreach Laboratories Various industry pressures have accelerated an evolution of laboratory businesses in recent years, with particular impacts on labs owned by health systems. As a result, many systems are... Article
Senior Living at a Crossroads: Organizations Reassess Their Role in an Evolving Industry As the Baby Boom generation completes its transition into senior status—the entire generation is expected to reach retirement age by 2030—operators of senior living facilities will need... Article
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
Less Can Be More: New Considerations for Hospital and Health System Partnerships The year 2022 is proving to be the most challenging financial year of the COVID-19 pandemic for hospitals and health systems, with lagging volumes, rising expenses, and limited... Article
Addressing the Behavioral Health Crisis Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the U.S. was already facing a behavioral health crisis. Since the pandemic began last year, the magnitude of that crisis has grown: Approximately... Article