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The Physician Flash Report features real-time physician production, compensation, and operating expense data that is updated quarterly. Read more!

Kaufman Hall has been tracking the growing influence of consumer decision-making in healthcare—commonly referred to as “consumerism”—for the past five years. Changes in the consumer...

For the past 3 years, we've surveyed hospitals and health systems on their performance improvement and cost transformation efforts. This year, these efforts met an historic challenge with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Margins have consistently performed below 2019 levels as a result. Even so, the last few months had shown some signs of potential progress, with margins increasing incrementally month-over-month.

The COVID-19 pandemic continued to drive significant volatility in operating performance for hospitals across the country in July, suppressing volumes and revenues compared to the same period last year.

Even when including the CARES Act relief, the year-to-date median hospital operating margin is still 200-300bps below historical and sustainable performance.

Few organizations can maintain themselves for an extended period when total expenses are greater than total revenues. Read more in our report.

The fourth annual report details industry performance related activities designed to enable patients to become wholly involved in their healthcare decisions. Learn more.

Consistent membership and premium growth by U.S. payer markets is expected to continue, according to new Kaufman Hall research. Premiums for the U.S. managed care market were estimated...

Learn why 2017 has been appropriately tagged as a transformative year for healthcare deal-making, and the implications.

Hospital-based and independent labs are increasingly challenged by depressed volume, declining payment rates, and disruptive innovation. These challenges and others are leading many laboratory and diagnostic services providers to explore mergers, acquisitions, and other affiliations as vehicles to gain greater scale and improve their competitive positions.

The latest Industry Flash Report looks at mergers, acquisitions, and partnership activity in the Home Health and Hospice sectors, including the major players involved, and the implications for hospitals and health systems.