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When health system leaders are thinking about building a medical office building or ambulatory surgery center as part of their ambulatory and physician affiliation strategy, the first question they should ask is, “Do we need to incentivize physicians in this market with real estate and create owners instead of renters?”

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.

When your mother is sick, do you give her the number to your health system’s call center and hope for the best? Or do you start working your relationships to figure out how to get her...

Physician groups across the country saw productivity and revenue improvements in the second quarter compared to pre-pandemic levels seen in Q4 2019.

The aggressive growth plans of physician practice disruptors mean that competitive dynamics might change—and change quickly—in many local markets. Learn how independent physician groups and health systems can respond.

Physician groups across the country continued to see key performance metrics return to near pre-pandemic levels in the first quarter of 2021, suggesting an end to the volatility driven by COVID-19 that rocked practices throughout 2020.

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...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced new and potentially long-lasting volatility into traditional financial planning processes at hospitals and health systems. Financial...

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to create a volatile operating environment for the nation’s employed physicians. Although physician practices saw some gains in the third quarter of 2020, most performance measures remained well below 2019 levels.