Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Embracing Financial Planning After a Pause: Key Considerations In recent years, many healthcare organizations have invested less effort in long-range financial planning to confront more immediate challenges to their margins and balance sheets. Article Healthcare’s Post-Growth Reset echnology and retail-focused companies from Amazon to Oscar Health to CVS/Aetna, just to name a few, have taken ambitious steps into healthcare with offerings for everything from primary care to ambulatory clinics to new, consumer-focused insurance plans. Article Amazon and One Medical: What’s Going on Here? Amazon’s recent acquisition of primary care company One Medical raises critical questions about what impact this deal could have on the way health care is delivered in the United States. Article Building Toward Actionable Risk Management In the current environment—with an uncertain recovery from COVID’s impacts, workforce shortages, heightened geopolitical tensions, inflationary pressures, and rising interest rates... Article Integrating the Consumer—A Practical Approach for Healthcare Organizations Well-resourced competitors to hospitals and health systems are aggressively using consumer-focused strategies to gain a foothold in the industry. Providers that integrate consumer... Article Operationalizing Value-Based Primary Care: Lessons from the Field For more than a decade, hospitals, payers, and other healthcare stakeholders have experimented with moving healthcare payment from fee-for-service, volume-based contracts to arrangements that reward providers for the value of the care they provide. Article Responding to the Risk of Site-Neutral Payments Challenges to hospital outpatient department (HOPD) reimbursement rates are coming from all directions. Some commercial payers are refusing to pay HOPD rates for certain procedures... Article Balancing The Physician Enterprise Triangle: Achieving Equilibrium Amid Rapid Change The human body is equipped with a heart, blood, and blood vessels that work together to provide adequate tissue perfusion. This concept, known as the “perfusion triangle,” is essential... Article Addressing the Behavioral Health Crisis Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the U.S. was already facing a behavioral health crisis. Since the pandemic began last year, the magnitude of that crisis has grown: Approximately... Article Why Strategic Networks Make Sense for Academic Medical Centers Academic medical centers (AMCs) have many unique attributes that distinguish them from other hospitals. These same attributes make them ideal partners within a strategic network that comprises community hospitals, rural hospitals, or both. Article
Embracing Financial Planning After a Pause: Key Considerations In recent years, many healthcare organizations have invested less effort in long-range financial planning to confront more immediate challenges to their margins and balance sheets. Article
Healthcare’s Post-Growth Reset echnology and retail-focused companies from Amazon to Oscar Health to CVS/Aetna, just to name a few, have taken ambitious steps into healthcare with offerings for everything from primary care to ambulatory clinics to new, consumer-focused insurance plans. Article
Amazon and One Medical: What’s Going on Here? Amazon’s recent acquisition of primary care company One Medical raises critical questions about what impact this deal could have on the way health care is delivered in the United States. Article
Building Toward Actionable Risk Management In the current environment—with an uncertain recovery from COVID’s impacts, workforce shortages, heightened geopolitical tensions, inflationary pressures, and rising interest rates... Article
Integrating the Consumer—A Practical Approach for Healthcare Organizations Well-resourced competitors to hospitals and health systems are aggressively using consumer-focused strategies to gain a foothold in the industry. Providers that integrate consumer... Article
Operationalizing Value-Based Primary Care: Lessons from the Field For more than a decade, hospitals, payers, and other healthcare stakeholders have experimented with moving healthcare payment from fee-for-service, volume-based contracts to arrangements that reward providers for the value of the care they provide. Article
Responding to the Risk of Site-Neutral Payments Challenges to hospital outpatient department (HOPD) reimbursement rates are coming from all directions. Some commercial payers are refusing to pay HOPD rates for certain procedures... Article
Balancing The Physician Enterprise Triangle: Achieving Equilibrium Amid Rapid Change The human body is equipped with a heart, blood, and blood vessels that work together to provide adequate tissue perfusion. This concept, known as the “perfusion triangle,” is essential... Article
Addressing the Behavioral Health Crisis Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the U.S. was already facing a behavioral health crisis. Since the pandemic began last year, the magnitude of that crisis has grown: Approximately... Article
Why Strategic Networks Make Sense for Academic Medical Centers Academic medical centers (AMCs) have many unique attributes that distinguish them from other hospitals. These same attributes make them ideal partners within a strategic network that comprises community hospitals, rural hospitals, or both. Article