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The financial challenges facing hospitals and health systems—from the One Big Beautiful Bill’s looming impacts to difficult operating conditions—are also keeping insurers up at night.

Forward-looking healthcare systems aren’t waiting for conditions to stabilize. They are moving deliberately toward strategic partnerships that position them for long-term relevance and resilience.

In recent years, many healthcare organizations have invested less effort in long-range financial planning to confront more immediate challenges to their margins and balance sheets.

Health system leaders focused on the day-to-day needs of their organization can sometimes lose sight of key developments in other sectors of healthcare. But in an interconnected healthcare ecosystem, understanding the trendlines their payer counterparts are facing is an essential task.

Technology and retail-focused companies from Amazon to Oscar Health to CVS/Aetna, just to name a few, have taken ambitious steps into healthcare with offerings for everything from primary care to ambulatory clinics to new, consumer-focused insurance plans.

Amazon’s recent acquisition of primary care company One Medical raises critical questions about what impact this deal could have on the way health care is delivered in the United States.

In the current environment—with an uncertain recovery from COVID’s impacts, workforce shortages, heightened geopolitical tensions, inflationary pressures, and rising interest rates...

Health system leaders must determine how effectively their real estate portfolio supports the system’s strategic objectives, operational needs, and financial commitments, and how that portfolio might be realigned to better support the system.

Well-resourced competitors to hospitals and health systems are aggressively using consumer-focused strategies to gain a foothold in the industry. Providers that integrate consumer...

For more than a decade, hospitals, payers, and other healthcare stakeholders have experimented with moving healthcare payment from fee-for-service, volume-based contracts to arrangements that reward providers for the value of the care they provide.

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...

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...