Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Next page › Last page Last What Can Patient Access Leaders Learn from SpaceX? A five-step design process used by the SpaceX engineering team provides a framework for healthcare leaders seeking to transform how patients access their health system. Article What Is Our Organization Trying to Be? Strategic Planning after Turbulence This article is part one in a series on reigniting the strategic plan and growth opportunities. Part two will dig deeper into steps the board can take to elevate strategic planning efforts. 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 The Change Healthcare Cyberattack: A Risk Perspective for CFOs and Treasurers The Change Healthcare cyberattack is a reminder of the need to prepare for future risk events. Organizations should ensure adequate and diverse liquidity sources and allocate certain assets in the investment portfolio to protect and preserve their core mission. Article Payer Trends Health Systems Should Watch Closely in 2024 Health system leaders focused on the day-to-day needs of their organization can sometimes lose sight of key developments in other sectors of healthcare. But in an interconnected healthcare ecosystem, understanding the trendlines their payer counterparts are facing is an essential task. Article Responding to the Change Healthcare Cyberattack The Change Healthcare cyberattack has affected claims processing and cash flow for many provider organizations. Learn more about the impacts and how to respond. Article Building Skilled Nursing Relationships to Improve Hospital Length of Stay To successfully reduce length of stay, health system management will need to combine performance improvement efforts with efforts to successfully align themselves more closely with skilled nursing providers. Article The Five Most Interesting Transactions Announced in 2023 Transaction momentum continued to build in 2023. Here are our thoughts on the five most interesting hospital and health system transactions from the past year. Article Credit and Capital Markets Outlook for 2024 There was a general improvement in operating margins over the course of 2023, and it is possible that we have reached a point of stability. But with margins still well below pre-pandemic levels, will that level of stability provide sustainability? Article Is Now the Time to Terminate Legacy Interest Rate Hedges? A changing interest rate environment has reopened the opportunity to consider terminating an organization’s swap position. Organizations should take a measured approach in determining whether this is an opportunity they wish to pursue. Article Revisiting Counterparty Risk Counterparty risk management must be continually reinforced by implementing and following best practices. This process can help form a stronger and more diverse network of banking partners that will serve an organization well throughout its business cycle. Article Thriving Post-Reset: Payer-Provider Partnerships After the Pandemic In the pre-pandemic era, payer-provider partnerships were often focused on creating value by managing costs of care and delivering high-quality care. In today’s more challenging macro-economic environment, these conversations are becoming more direct and practical, with both payers and providers asking hard questions. Article Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Next page › Last page Last
What Can Patient Access Leaders Learn from SpaceX? A five-step design process used by the SpaceX engineering team provides a framework for healthcare leaders seeking to transform how patients access their health system. Article
What Is Our Organization Trying to Be? Strategic Planning after Turbulence This article is part one in a series on reigniting the strategic plan and growth opportunities. Part two will dig deeper into steps the board can take to elevate strategic planning efforts. 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
The Change Healthcare Cyberattack: A Risk Perspective for CFOs and Treasurers The Change Healthcare cyberattack is a reminder of the need to prepare for future risk events. Organizations should ensure adequate and diverse liquidity sources and allocate certain assets in the investment portfolio to protect and preserve their core mission. Article
Payer Trends Health Systems Should Watch Closely in 2024 Health system leaders focused on the day-to-day needs of their organization can sometimes lose sight of key developments in other sectors of healthcare. But in an interconnected healthcare ecosystem, understanding the trendlines their payer counterparts are facing is an essential task. Article
Responding to the Change Healthcare Cyberattack The Change Healthcare cyberattack has affected claims processing and cash flow for many provider organizations. Learn more about the impacts and how to respond. Article
Building Skilled Nursing Relationships to Improve Hospital Length of Stay To successfully reduce length of stay, health system management will need to combine performance improvement efforts with efforts to successfully align themselves more closely with skilled nursing providers. Article
The Five Most Interesting Transactions Announced in 2023 Transaction momentum continued to build in 2023. Here are our thoughts on the five most interesting hospital and health system transactions from the past year. Article
Credit and Capital Markets Outlook for 2024 There was a general improvement in operating margins over the course of 2023, and it is possible that we have reached a point of stability. But with margins still well below pre-pandemic levels, will that level of stability provide sustainability? Article
Is Now the Time to Terminate Legacy Interest Rate Hedges? A changing interest rate environment has reopened the opportunity to consider terminating an organization’s swap position. Organizations should take a measured approach in determining whether this is an opportunity they wish to pursue. Article
Revisiting Counterparty Risk Counterparty risk management must be continually reinforced by implementing and following best practices. This process can help form a stronger and more diverse network of banking partners that will serve an organization well throughout its business cycle. Article
Thriving Post-Reset: Payer-Provider Partnerships After the Pandemic In the pre-pandemic era, payer-provider partnerships were often focused on creating value by managing costs of care and delivering high-quality care. In today’s more challenging macro-economic environment, these conversations are becoming more direct and practical, with both payers and providers asking hard questions. Article