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America’s hospitals face significant, ongoing financial instability as the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to fester.

Challenges to hospital outpatient department (HOPD) reimbursement rates are coming from all directions. Some commercial payers are refusing to pay HOPD rates for certain procedures...

Momentum for meeting the changing needs of healthcare consumers has stalled in 2021, according to the sixth annual Kaufman Hall State of Consumerism in Healthcare Survey.

The human body is equipped with a heart, blood, and blood vessels that work together to provide adequate tissue perfusion. This concept, known as the “perfusion triangle,” is essential...

The healthcare gyroscope is a delicate combination of management, governance, and medical attitudes and processes that keeps all complex healthcare organizations functioning in a way that serves the best interests of its patients and associated communities.

On this episode, Ken Kaufman, Chair of Kaufman Hall, and Michael Peregrine, Partner at McDermott, discuss the board’s top post-pandemic governance and leadership challenges.

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that healthcare organizations must build resiliency to withstand the shocks that may come their way and be in a position to pursue the opportunities that rapid and significant change can create.

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...

Academic medical centers (AMCs) have many unique attributes that distinguish them from other hospitals. These same attributes make them ideal partners within a strategic network that comprises community hospitals, rural hospitals, or both.