Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Vizient SMO: Navigating ongoing cost pressures The latest Vizient Spend Management Outlook projects a 2.78% overall increase in healthcare supply chain prices for July 2026 to June 2027. Infographic UK HealthCare strengthens non-labor expense strategy through data, collaboration In an era of increasing financial pressure, UK HealthCare has achieved impressive progress in reducing non-labor expenses through a coordinated strategy that blends analytics, process improvement and cross-functional collaboration. Article Non-labor healthcare expenses: Where costs are rising and why Inflation pressures aren’t easing in 2025. Economic uncertainty, pharmacy and indirect spend are driving cost surges that squeeze margins and complicate strategic investment —... Article 2025 Health System Performance Outlook: Redefining performance in an era of financial pressure From managing non-labor expenses to strengthening the workforce, expanding access and navigating payer reimbursement, health systems shared the key challenges shaping their focus this year—and their planning for the year ahead. Research Report The horrors of non-clinical expenses When health systems lack strong governance, tremble at the thought of change or fail to move in unison across their hospitals, progress decays and the cobwebs of inefficiency spread. Article Gist Weekly: August 8, 2025 HHS cancels mRNA contracts, insurance troubles create an opening for IDNs, Gates Foundation announces major women’s health initiative. Brief Insights from the Vizient Spend Management Outlook This week’s graphic features data from Vizient’s Summer 2025 Spend Management Outlook, which provides a forward-looking analysis of product cost inflation for the 2026 calendar year. Infographic Gist Weekly: March 7, 2025 HHS withdraws Richardson Waiver, new Fitch report on potential impacts of federal policy changes, UnitedHealthcare to reduce prior authorizations. Brief Purchased Services Are a Mystery Worth Solving Purchased services represent a significant—but often unknown and overlooked—opportunity for cost savings. Discovering and quantifying the size of this opportunity requires a lot of detective work, but for most organizations, it is a mystery worth solving. Article Optimizing 340B Participation Compliantly While “Waiting and Watching” New Developments Hospitals and health systems that participate in the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program are currently facing challenges on multiple fronts, including manufacturer restrictions and program audits, legal challenges, and constantly-evolving federal and state requirements for participation. Article 2023 State of Healthcare Performance Improvement Report: Signs of Stabilization Emerge Hospitals and health systems are seeing some signs of stabilization in 2023 following an extremely difficult year in 2022. Workforce-related challenges persist, however, keeping costs high and contributing to issues with patient access to care. Research Report
Vizient SMO: Navigating ongoing cost pressures The latest Vizient Spend Management Outlook projects a 2.78% overall increase in healthcare supply chain prices for July 2026 to June 2027. Infographic
UK HealthCare strengthens non-labor expense strategy through data, collaboration In an era of increasing financial pressure, UK HealthCare has achieved impressive progress in reducing non-labor expenses through a coordinated strategy that blends analytics, process improvement and cross-functional collaboration. Article
Non-labor healthcare expenses: Where costs are rising and why Inflation pressures aren’t easing in 2025. Economic uncertainty, pharmacy and indirect spend are driving cost surges that squeeze margins and complicate strategic investment —... Article
2025 Health System Performance Outlook: Redefining performance in an era of financial pressure From managing non-labor expenses to strengthening the workforce, expanding access and navigating payer reimbursement, health systems shared the key challenges shaping their focus this year—and their planning for the year ahead. Research Report
The horrors of non-clinical expenses When health systems lack strong governance, tremble at the thought of change or fail to move in unison across their hospitals, progress decays and the cobwebs of inefficiency spread. Article
Gist Weekly: August 8, 2025 HHS cancels mRNA contracts, insurance troubles create an opening for IDNs, Gates Foundation announces major women’s health initiative. Brief
Insights from the Vizient Spend Management Outlook This week’s graphic features data from Vizient’s Summer 2025 Spend Management Outlook, which provides a forward-looking analysis of product cost inflation for the 2026 calendar year. Infographic
Gist Weekly: March 7, 2025 HHS withdraws Richardson Waiver, new Fitch report on potential impacts of federal policy changes, UnitedHealthcare to reduce prior authorizations. Brief
Purchased Services Are a Mystery Worth Solving Purchased services represent a significant—but often unknown and overlooked—opportunity for cost savings. Discovering and quantifying the size of this opportunity requires a lot of detective work, but for most organizations, it is a mystery worth solving. Article
Optimizing 340B Participation Compliantly While “Waiting and Watching” New Developments Hospitals and health systems that participate in the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program are currently facing challenges on multiple fronts, including manufacturer restrictions and program audits, legal challenges, and constantly-evolving federal and state requirements for participation. Article
2023 State of Healthcare Performance Improvement Report: Signs of Stabilization Emerge Hospitals and health systems are seeing some signs of stabilization in 2023 following an extremely difficult year in 2022. Workforce-related challenges persist, however, keeping costs high and contributing to issues with patient access to care. Research Report
