Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A 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 Preparing for Risk-Based Contracting and Value-Based Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities In a roundtable discussion, Kaufman Hall Managing Directors Matthew Bates and Nora Kelly and Senior Vice President Max Timm discuss the rise of risk-based contracting in value-based healthcare arrangements, what providers and insurers need to watch out for, and what success in risk-based contracting will look like. Article Less Can Be More: New Considerations for Hospital and Health System Partnerships The year 2022 is proving to be the most challenging financial year of the COVID-19 pandemic for hospitals and health systems, with lagging volumes, rising expenses, and limited... Article Evaluating Skilled Nursing Options in an Evolving Post-Acute Landscape Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) play an important role within the continuum of care. A high-performing SNF is a critical ally for health systems, particularly those who are focused on... Article Physicians at the Center of Healthcare’s Realignment Healthcare is undergoing a major realignment as stakeholders compete for consumers’ attention. The different strategies intersect at the physician’s office, and physicians today face an unprecedented array of practice options. 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 Coming to Your Market Soon: Primary Care Physicians Empowered by Choice The aggressive growth plans of physician practice disruptors mean that competitive dynamics might change—and change quickly—in many local markets. Learn how independent physician groups and health systems can respond. 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
Preparing for Risk-Based Contracting and Value-Based Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities In a roundtable discussion, Kaufman Hall Managing Directors Matthew Bates and Nora Kelly and Senior Vice President Max Timm discuss the rise of risk-based contracting in value-based healthcare arrangements, what providers and insurers need to watch out for, and what success in risk-based contracting will look like. Article
Less Can Be More: New Considerations for Hospital and Health System Partnerships The year 2022 is proving to be the most challenging financial year of the COVID-19 pandemic for hospitals and health systems, with lagging volumes, rising expenses, and limited... Article
Evaluating Skilled Nursing Options in an Evolving Post-Acute Landscape Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) play an important role within the continuum of care. A high-performing SNF is a critical ally for health systems, particularly those who are focused on... Article
Physicians at the Center of Healthcare’s Realignment Healthcare is undergoing a major realignment as stakeholders compete for consumers’ attention. The different strategies intersect at the physician’s office, and physicians today face an unprecedented array of practice options. 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
Coming to Your Market Soon: Primary Care Physicians Empowered by Choice The aggressive growth plans of physician practice disruptors mean that competitive dynamics might change—and change quickly—in many local markets. Learn how independent physician groups and health systems can respond. Article