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Renowned thinker and speaker Sergio Rebelo, PhD, MUFG Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, discusses macro- and microeconomic insights to suggest healthcare’s future direction.

No one pushes the envelope on operations like Peter McCanna, President of Baylor Scott & White, who shares his perspective of the bold operational moves necessary in times of intense uncertainty.

Suzie Desai, Senior Director at S&P Global Ratings, Lisa Goldstein, Associate Managing Director at Moody’s Investors Service, and Kevin Holloran, Senior Director at Fitch Ratings, cover how rating agencies view the financial health of hospitals and what they are looking for in strategy and performance against a backdrop of uncertainty.

Given the number and magnitude of external pressures in healthcare, the need for robust, long-range financial planning is more critical than ever. In addition, boards are increasingly...

Merger and acquisition activity in the third quarter of 2021 looked much like Q2: A lower total number of transactions compared with pre-pandemic historical activity, but a notably high...

Rising COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations from the hyper-transmissible Delta variant continued to deepen pressures on the nation’s hospitals and health systems in August, according to the latest issue of Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that the Fed would start tapering its bond purchasing activities in November with the plan of fully winding down the element of market support by mid-2022, at which point they might begin to raise short-term rates.

When health system leaders are thinking about building a medical office building or ambulatory surgery center as part of their ambulatory and physician affiliation strategy, the first question they should ask is, “Do we need to incentivize physicians in this market with real estate and create owners instead of renters?”

We’re observing something unique in the industry – a paradigm shift in where patients go to get their care and how they receive it. We see it in telehealth, consumerism and...

America’s hospitals face significant, ongoing financial instability as the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to fester.

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...

Momentum for meeting the changing needs of healthcare consumers has stalled in 2021, according to the sixth annual Kaufman Hall State of Consumerism in Healthcare Survey.