Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A A landmark acquisition highlights a new not-for-profit perspective With its acquisition of AMSURG, a national ambulatory chain, Ascension is changing the playbook for not-for-profit business model transformation. The acquisition raises important questions: How do we expect the game to be played moving forward, and how do we want to participate? Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Hospitals keep losing money on physicians. Is there another way? Hospitals continue to lose significant money on employing physicians, and the original goals of care coordination and efficiency haven't materialized. Rising costs, declining reimbursement advantages, overutilization of low-margin services and administrative burdens are factors behind these unsustainable losses. Article Achieving “Smart Scale”: Insights from today’s high-performing health systems Senior healthcare leaders and board members routinely ask us the following two questions. Blog Navigating Health Systems Through a Decade of Change A conversation with Rich Liekweg, CEO of BJC Health System in Missouri, and Nick Barto, president of BJC Health System Blog
A landmark acquisition highlights a new not-for-profit perspective With its acquisition of AMSURG, a national ambulatory chain, Ascension is changing the playbook for not-for-profit business model transformation. The acquisition raises important questions: How do we expect the game to be played moving forward, and how do we want to participate? Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Hospitals keep losing money on physicians. Is there another way? Hospitals continue to lose significant money on employing physicians, and the original goals of care coordination and efficiency haven't materialized. Rising costs, declining reimbursement advantages, overutilization of low-margin services and administrative burdens are factors behind these unsustainable losses. Article
Achieving “Smart Scale”: Insights from today’s high-performing health systems Senior healthcare leaders and board members routinely ask us the following two questions. Blog
Navigating Health Systems Through a Decade of Change A conversation with Rich Liekweg, CEO of BJC Health System in Missouri, and Nick Barto, president of BJC Health System Blog