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As care expands beyond inpatient settings and quality scrutiny grows, hospitals must elevate clinical documentation integrity into a strategic, enterprise-wide capability supported by aligned leadership, strong processes, and thoughtful technology to accurately reflect patient complexity and performance.

Hospitals continue to lose significant money on employing physicians, and the original goals of care coordination and efficiency haven't materialized. Rising costs, declining reimbursement advantages, overutilization of low-margin services and administrative burdens are factors behind these unsustainable losses.

As organizations increasingly adopt a service line planning model, integrated strategic financial planning is more critical than ever.

As ambulatory services grow, so does competition in the area of ambulatory surgery center (ASC) management services. Health systems have an ever-expanding range of potential partners that are offering increasingly flexible alignment structures.

After several years of grappling with one existential challenge after another, many organizations may find the task of resetting their strategy overwhelming. In our experience, most health systems have not asked or answered the difficult questions required to chart a new path.

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.

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.

In the pre-pandemic era, payer-provider partnerships were often focused on creating value by managing costs of care and delivering high-quality care. In today’s more challenging macro-economic environment, these conversations are becoming more direct and practical, with both payers and providers asking hard questions.