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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.

Transaction momentum continued to build in 2023. Here are our thoughts on the five most interesting hospital and health system transactions from the past year.

Former UCLA basketball coach John Gooden believed that quickness and a sense of urgency was absolutely necessary to winning in a competitive environment. But quickness must be accompanied by emotional and professional balance in order to achieve excellence.

The January issue of the Physician Flash Report features the most up-to-date industry trends drawn from the same data physician groups use to track their finances and operations.

Following hospitals’ worst financial year since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 presented a more promising trend for hospitals and health systems with general improvement across operational and financial measures.

There was a general improvement in operating margins over the course of 2023, and it is possible that we have reached a point of stability. But with margins still well below pre-pandemic levels, will that level of stability provide sustainability?

Watch Kaufman Hall managing directors Dan Clarin and Sarah Wiley for insights from our latest State of the Healthcare Consumer Report. The team explores the current state of health system growth and performance measurement.

The past year saw a material increase in downgrades over 2022 while the number of upgrades declined from the prior year. Here are five key takeaways from rating activity in 2023.

Hospitals and health insurers were more compliant with price transparency laws and regulations in 2023, according to healthcare price data company Turquoise Health. Carol Skenes, Principal Strategist at Turquoise, joins the podcast to talk more about what this data means for consumers and the healthcare industry.

Financial distress emerged as a key factor in hospital and health system M&A in 2023, with 28% of announced transactions involving a financially distressed partner. This is almost double the percentage of transactions in which financial distress was cited as a factor in 2022.

The Health Insurance Exchange (HIX) or Marketplace segment can be considered the largest growth market in the payer sector after Medicare Advantage (MA). From a relative low of 11.4 million members in 2020, the HIX market grew to 16.4 million members in 2023.

The hospital leadership issues that really matter right now center around the ability of hospital executives to possess and demonstrate an authentic emotional IQ to lead a diverse workforce in difficult circumstances.