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Two leading CEOs comment on how health systems can reorient healthcare beyond traditional settings.

The House Republicans’ draft tax-reform legislation threatens the financial health of not-for-profit hospitals and health systems. To the surprise of industry analysts, the November 2, 2017, draft included provisions that would significantly raise the cost of capital and limit financing options for 501(c)(3) hospitals and health systems.

On November 2, U.S. House Republicans released a sweeping tax reform bill that could have a devastating effect on not-for-profit healthcare organizations, significantly increasing the...

End-of-life care is among the U.S. healthcare system’s largest and most enduring challenges, both in terms of quality and cost.

Outlined here are six practices that provider organizations should use in their assessment of any contract, whether risk-based or fee-for-service with pay-for-performance components.

Many healthcare organizations continue to have significant legacy fixed pay interest rate swap portfolios. Most of these existing swap positions are long-dated structures that were put in place before the credit crisis and have remained in place largely due to the unacceptable termination costs.

In a new report, The Financial Resilience of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) indicates that although challenges facing higher education...

The US economic climate, unsustainable spending on healthcare, an evolving insurance market, technological advances, and increased healthcare decision making by Internet-empowered consumers accelerated the emergence of a new business model.

Lurie Children’s leadership recognizes the need for continued organizational transformation amid a changing healthcare landscape. As a long-standing partner and strategic advisor to the organization, Kaufman Hall recently was engaged by Lurie Children’s to help the organization assess the impact of industry change on its marketplace, and shape a vision and related strategies for how the hospital should evolve in the years ahead.

Read the lead article to learn how healthcare leaders across the country are approaching cost transformation, the important role of reconfiguring the portfolio of businesses and service lines in reducing overall costs, and three steps on how to get started on portfolio reconfiguration and rationalization at your organization.

Until recently, many hospital and health system executives have counted on relatively stable margins from laboratory departments. The economics of lab testing is changing dramatically due to market forces, including reduced Medicare payments, competition from national labs, higher cost sharing for patients, growth in bundled payments, and more.

Post-allocation management ensures continued alignment of financial performance with strategic planning cash-flow requirements.