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As healthcare market conditions continue to stabilize after several years of pandemic-era volatility, many hospital and health system leaders are revisiting their organizations’ strategic options for long-term sustainability.

This Sg2 Perspectives podcast, featuring Kaufman Hall Senior VP Adnan Qureshi, offers insights on current trends in private equity deals and perspectives on how private equity can help healthcare.

The latest Kaufman Hall Report includes an inside look at resetting organizational enterprise strategy.

The new generation of weight-loss drugs has the potential to help reduce prevalence of obesity and Type 2 diabetes, two of the most prevalent chronic conditions. How might that affect hospital operations and capital and financial planning?

A judge orders a partial, preliminary injunction of the FTC’s noncompete ban, Sanford Health and Marshfield Clinic announce plans to combine, and CMS proposes a nearly 3% cut to Medicare physician pay for 2025.

Using the latest data forecast from Sg2, a Vizient company, the graphic below illustrates how the outpatient shift will continue to accelerate through 2034.

Evolving industry dynamics will prompt further consolidation among not-for-profit life plan communities, especially as organizations look to add scale to their platforms. This activity will have strategic implications for LPC organizations of all sizes.

Watch an engaging discussion with Moody’s, Fitch and S&P on their latest industry outlooks and hear top-of-mind topics including cyber preparedness, financial performance and capital spending as we head into the second half of the year, and contemporary strategies for long-term sustainability.

Hospitals face enormously complex operational challenges every day. The advanced analytics used by large commercial businesses can offer solutions that improve revenue, lower expenses, and enhance patient outcomes.

M&A activity in Q2 2024 slowed from a very busy Q1, with 11 announced transactions. Several large transactions in the quarter, however, generated an average seller size by revenue that significantly exceeded year-end averages dating back to 2017.

Hospital financial performance remained relatively unchanged during the month of May, and the rate of change slowed for margins and other key performance indicators, which reflects stabilization.

In late April, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established new staffing standards for long-term care (LTC) facilities, mandating a minimum of 3.48 hours of nursing care per patient per day, with 33 minutes of that care from a registered nurse, at least one of whom must be always on site.