Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination First page First Previous page ‹ Page 1 Current page 2 Healthcare Strategy Spotlight We’re pleased to welcome you to our Strategy Spotlight blog, a space where we intend to regularly share our insights—and those of our colleagues—on the evolving challenges and opportunities healthcare organizations are confronting. Blog Can One Drug Change the Hospital Industry? The new generation of weight-loss drugs has the potential to help reduce prevalence of obesity and Type 2 diabetes, two of the most prevalent chronic conditions. How might that affect hospital operations and capital and financial planning? Blog Medicaid Plans: Five Growth Opportunities, Post-Redetermination For Medicaid plans that enjoyed a surge in business during the pandemic, this rapid decline in the market may be disheartening, and the large rapid shifts in the Medicaid risk pools will be challenging to manage to target profit margins in the near-term. Blog Walmart’s Primary Care Failure Is Important and a Problem Walmart’s failure as a healthcare provider points to some big problems in U.S. healthcare, including a difficult business model, an unfriendly reimbursement model, and a basic healthcare expense-to-revenue problem. Blog A Different Way of Thinking About Hospital Closures The many forces driving some hospitals to financial distress make it impossible to maintain the status quo. Leaders can move beyond a binary close-or-don’t-close decision to reconsider what it means to deliver healthcare in communities that struggle to support a hospital. Blog ICHRA: The Great Bifurcation of the Employer’s Role in Health Insurance U.S. employers have played a dual role in the health insurance of their employees – both paying for their health insurance coverage and choosing their health insurance options. These two roles have been tied at the hip, but now, ICHRA (individual coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement) products offer an opportunity to bifurcate that role. Blog The Employer Strikes Back: The Hollowing of the Commercial Health Insurance Market and Its Impact on Payers and Providers Today, the commercial group health insurance market is hollowing out, primarily driven by affordability pressures that have been building for decades. Blog Why Stories Matter Over the years, I have had many things that I have wanted to tell the executives at not-for-profit hospitals. As a ratings analyst, however, I couldn’t. Now I can. This is the first of... Blog To 2022 and Beyond Happy New Year and high hopes for a healthy, happy, and successful 2022; the one certainty is that it won’t be uneventful. Let’s kick off this year’s discussion with a level-setting... Blog Better Enterprise Resource Management The pathway through the period of widespread volatility we face will require making resiliency a central organizational objective, and the only way to achieve financial resiliency is through effective resource allocation. Blog Pagination First page First Previous page ‹ Page 1 Current page 2
Healthcare Strategy Spotlight We’re pleased to welcome you to our Strategy Spotlight blog, a space where we intend to regularly share our insights—and those of our colleagues—on the evolving challenges and opportunities healthcare organizations are confronting. Blog
Can One Drug Change the Hospital Industry? The new generation of weight-loss drugs has the potential to help reduce prevalence of obesity and Type 2 diabetes, two of the most prevalent chronic conditions. How might that affect hospital operations and capital and financial planning? Blog
Medicaid Plans: Five Growth Opportunities, Post-Redetermination For Medicaid plans that enjoyed a surge in business during the pandemic, this rapid decline in the market may be disheartening, and the large rapid shifts in the Medicaid risk pools will be challenging to manage to target profit margins in the near-term. Blog
Walmart’s Primary Care Failure Is Important and a Problem Walmart’s failure as a healthcare provider points to some big problems in U.S. healthcare, including a difficult business model, an unfriendly reimbursement model, and a basic healthcare expense-to-revenue problem. Blog
A Different Way of Thinking About Hospital Closures The many forces driving some hospitals to financial distress make it impossible to maintain the status quo. Leaders can move beyond a binary close-or-don’t-close decision to reconsider what it means to deliver healthcare in communities that struggle to support a hospital. Blog
ICHRA: The Great Bifurcation of the Employer’s Role in Health Insurance U.S. employers have played a dual role in the health insurance of their employees – both paying for their health insurance coverage and choosing their health insurance options. These two roles have been tied at the hip, but now, ICHRA (individual coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement) products offer an opportunity to bifurcate that role. Blog
The Employer Strikes Back: The Hollowing of the Commercial Health Insurance Market and Its Impact on Payers and Providers Today, the commercial group health insurance market is hollowing out, primarily driven by affordability pressures that have been building for decades. Blog
Why Stories Matter Over the years, I have had many things that I have wanted to tell the executives at not-for-profit hospitals. As a ratings analyst, however, I couldn’t. Now I can. This is the first of... Blog
To 2022 and Beyond Happy New Year and high hopes for a healthy, happy, and successful 2022; the one certainty is that it won’t be uneventful. Let’s kick off this year’s discussion with a level-setting... Blog
Better Enterprise Resource Management The pathway through the period of widespread volatility we face will require making resiliency a central organizational objective, and the only way to achieve financial resiliency is through effective resource allocation. Blog
