Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Next page › Last page Last 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 Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” But Probably Not Right Now Hospital leadership faces an undeniably hard challenge: regaining financial stability, finding a relevant post-Covid competitive vision, and energizing teams with a renewed sense of purpose. But fighting back is the hospital job of the moment. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: Hospital Strategy and Planning in Times of Financial Challenge During times of financial challenge, hospitals tend to aggressively cut back on both planning and the execution of overall strategy. But is this the right road for hospitals to take at this time? Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Rating Agency Summer 2023 Update Our summer Rating Agency Webinar covers several important topics, including year-to-date rating activity through the first half of 2023 and what it tells us about the state of the industry. Webinar Rethinking Healthcare Economics: The Power of Advanced Practice Providers with Matthew Bates On a new episode of The Healthcare Plus Podcast, host Quint Studer and Matthew Bates discuss the financial pressures facing healthcare industry leaders today and discuss strategic solutions to improve create alignment and improve margins. Podcast 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 Building Strong Consumer Relationships in the Value-Based Care Era: A New Approach Organizations that pursue consumer strategies and value-based approaches together will be much more likely to achieve their goals while increasing their ability to effectively compete against new industry entrants. Research Report Covenant Challenges Signal Need to Chart a Path to Sustainability The possibility of breached covenants is a symptom of deeper problems that require an all-hands-on-deck approach to get back on a sustainable path. Blog Aligning Real Estate Within the Context of Strategy, Operations, and Finance Health system leaders must determine how effectively their real estate portfolio supports the system’s strategic objectives, operational needs, and financial commitments, and how that portfolio might be realigned to better support the system. Article A Special Workforce Edition of the National Hospital Flash Report A nationwide shortage of healthcare workers made worse by the pandemic, and hospital and health systems’ increased reliance on contract labor, is driving expenses upward and contributing to steep declines in profit margins, according to a Special Workforce Edition of Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report. Research Report A Roadmap for the Future With plans for an administrative restructuring finalized, a university completes its roadmap to financial sustainability. Some early successes help boost momentum. Blog 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 Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Next page › Last page Last
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
Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” But Probably Not Right Now Hospital leadership faces an undeniably hard challenge: regaining financial stability, finding a relevant post-Covid competitive vision, and energizing teams with a renewed sense of purpose. But fighting back is the hospital job of the moment. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: Hospital Strategy and Planning in Times of Financial Challenge During times of financial challenge, hospitals tend to aggressively cut back on both planning and the execution of overall strategy. But is this the right road for hospitals to take at this time? Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Rating Agency Summer 2023 Update Our summer Rating Agency Webinar covers several important topics, including year-to-date rating activity through the first half of 2023 and what it tells us about the state of the industry. Webinar
Rethinking Healthcare Economics: The Power of Advanced Practice Providers with Matthew Bates On a new episode of The Healthcare Plus Podcast, host Quint Studer and Matthew Bates discuss the financial pressures facing healthcare industry leaders today and discuss strategic solutions to improve create alignment and improve margins. Podcast
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
Building Strong Consumer Relationships in the Value-Based Care Era: A New Approach Organizations that pursue consumer strategies and value-based approaches together will be much more likely to achieve their goals while increasing their ability to effectively compete against new industry entrants. Research Report
Covenant Challenges Signal Need to Chart a Path to Sustainability The possibility of breached covenants is a symptom of deeper problems that require an all-hands-on-deck approach to get back on a sustainable path. Blog
Aligning Real Estate Within the Context of Strategy, Operations, and Finance Health system leaders must determine how effectively their real estate portfolio supports the system’s strategic objectives, operational needs, and financial commitments, and how that portfolio might be realigned to better support the system. Article
A Special Workforce Edition of the National Hospital Flash Report A nationwide shortage of healthcare workers made worse by the pandemic, and hospital and health systems’ increased reliance on contract labor, is driving expenses upward and contributing to steep declines in profit margins, according to a Special Workforce Edition of Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report. Research Report
A Roadmap for the Future With plans for an administrative restructuring finalized, a university completes its roadmap to financial sustainability. Some early successes help boost momentum. Blog
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