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Claro Healthcare, a recent addition to the Kaufman Hall family, is the leading firm for Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) in the US. Over the last 25 years, its professionals have helped hundreds of hospitals and health systems nationally.

Faculty practice plans are complex entities; the addition of a community physician group adds to that complexity. The question for academic health system leadership is whether and when to combine the faculty and community physicians into a single entity.

Our March Rating Agency Webinar cover severals important topics, including: Each agency’s not-for-profit healthcare sector outlook, key drivers and what that means for rating activity...

Recent bank failures have shaken markets and raised questions about the stability of the banking system. This special market update explains why the failures that have occurred appear to be examples of institution-specific versus systemic risk, but notes that it remains too early to declare this a non-event.

Recent bank failures are a reminder of the importance of properly measuring counterparty risk and ensuring that business continuity plans include scenarios in which a banking partner is no longer able to provide key treasury services.

All organizations, including America’s hospitals and health systems, need to confront the fact that no strategic plan lasts forever.

An Interview with Venanzio Arquilla, Chairman and Managing Director, Claro Healthcare.

Today’s healthcare challenge is a Now in which credit and capital formation is essentially broken; a wildly multi-variable Near with potentially profoundly different outcomes; and a Far that is effectively jammed and inaccessible.

Although lifting the Public Health Emergency (PHE) sends a hopeful message in the country’s battle against the coronavirus, phasing out this federal funding will bring new financial challenges to a battle-weary hospital industry.

Hospitals entered 2023 on more stable footing, following the worst financial year since the start of the pandemic. However, they still face a range of persistent challenges, including higher labor expenses, lower patient volumes, and a fundamental shift in where patients access care services.

Not-for-profit healthcare may have entered a resource chasm that will fundamentally degrade the sector’s credit and capital foundation. Organizations need to extend the idea of performance improvement to balance sheet, addressing three total enterprise considerations.

In January, we brought together the higher education sector leaders from the three major rating agencies. In this month’s blog, we summarize five of the key takeaways from our conversation.