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The hospital and health system leaders we work with are extremely concerned about the financial impact their organizations may experience from potentially significant Medicaid policy changes, following the recent passage of a budget resolution by the U.S. House of Representatives.

Senior living mergers and acquisitions involving not-for-profit entities continued to rise in 2024, with 62 announced transactions—up from 59 in 2023—according to a new analysis by Kaufman Hall, a Vizient company.

A conversation with Rich Liekweg, CEO of BJC Health System in Missouri, and Nick Barto, president of BJC Health System

The latest Kaufman Hall Report includes highlights from the 35th annual Healthcare Leadership Conference, which featured high-level thinking and reflection on how our industry’s ongoing transformation will progress into the future.

It has been an incredibly busy and exciting year for our Strategy & Business Transformation practice at Kaufman Hall. In 2024, we observed hospitals and health systems take steps to reinvigorate their strategic efforts amid a stabilizing, but still challenging, outlook.

Partnerships with imaging companies can offer a unique value proposition for health systems looking to blend their imaging offering between hospital outpatient department and independent diagnostic testing facility settings.

Leaders of publicly owned hospitals should make an ownership model analysis a regular part of their strategic planning process. While public ownership confers many advantages, this analysis will help leadership ensure that the ownership model aligns with strategic goals and long-term viability.

Health systems are faced with two conflicting realities. The first is that partnerships will continue to be a necessary and critical part of healthcare strategy. The second is that antitrust enforcement will continue to create strong barriers to these same partnerships.

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.

With 17 announced transactions, the fourth quarter of 2022 was one of the most active quarters we have seen since the COVID-19 pandemic began near the end of Q1 2020. Four of the 17...

Listen to Kaufman Hall and Sg2 experts as they co-present highlights from recent annual research data regarding the evolving Healthcare Consumer.

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.