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The Change Healthcare cyberattack has affected claims processing and cash flow for many provider organizations. Learn more about the impacts and how to respond.

Watch Kaufman Hall’s Performance Improvement practice discuss insights from our 2023 State of Healthcare Performance Improvement report. The webinar features expert commentary on issues affecting the workforce, the revenue cycle, care transitions, supplies and purchased services, the physician enterprise, and the balance sheet.

Hospitals and health systems are seeing some signs of stabilization in 2023 following an extremely difficult year in 2022. Workforce-related challenges persist, however, keeping costs high and contributing to issues with patient access to care.

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.

For the Federal Reserve, a soft landing means we arrive at the 2% inflation target without a recession. For healthcare, a soft landing is operating and investment entity recovery that stabilizes credit positioning and facilitates capital formation.

Recently, Erik Swanson and Robert Turner joined the Reorg podcast with reporter Hoa Nguyen to explore hospital financial performance and healthcare financing trends through the rest of 2023.

The latest Kaufman Hall Report includes an inside look at the strategic alternatives for health system outreach laboratories—and key challenges and opportunities for health systems.

Current Funding Environment IU Health (Aa2/AA/AA), AdventHealth (Aa2/NR/AA), Banner Health (NR/AA-/AA-), and Arkansas Children’s Hospital (A1/AA-/NR) came to market this week with...

There has always been a connection between performance improvement initiatives and the balance sheet. By reducing operating costs, boosting productivity, and enhancing revenues, a...

Current Funding Environment Healthcare debt issuance remains incredibly light, across both public and private channels. There is significant volatility across all fixed income markets...

Our March Rating Agency Webinar cover several important topics, including each agency’s not-for-profit healthcare sector outlook, key drivers and what that means for rating activity in 2023, covenant violations (or near misses) and how they are incorporated into rating decisions, trends in capital spending and an update on ESG.

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.