Purchased services represent a significant—but often unknown and overlooked—opportunity for cost savings. Discovering and quantifying the size of this opportunity requires a lot of detective work, but for most organizations, it is a mystery worth solving.

CMS raises the bar for MA plan quality ratings, CVS announces corporate layoffs, and California passes healthcare AI legislation.

As open enrollment approaches for those with employer-sponsored insurance (ESI), this week’s graphic dives into some of the challenges facing the ESI market.

This week’s graphic features our assessment of the many emerging competitive challenges to traditional health systems.

With 27 announced transactions, Q3 had the highest level of activity thus far in 2024. Total transacted revenue of more than $13 billion was the highest Q3 total in the last eight years.

Hospital financial performance remained relatively stable during the month of August, and despite higher patient volume, revenue and expenses declined on a volume-adjusted basis.

FTC sues PBMs over insulin pricing, a House bill would extend telehealth flexibilities, and HRSA awards contracts for the new organ transplant system.

With Election Day less than six weeks away, this week’s graphic compares the positions of Vice President Harris and former President Trump on three of this cycle’s most important healthcare policy issues: competition, Medicare, and the cost of coverage.

To fully capture the benefits of changes in institutional advancement, leadership should focus on two questions. Do we have the datasets and analytics needed to measure donor potential and engagement in an effective way? And have we structured our advancement office to best support its productivity and effectiveness?

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.

A new conversation about founder mode vs. management mode is challenging conventional thinking about leadership styles and organizational structures. In a new blog, Ken Kaufman defines the characteristics of founder mode and how it can prompt leaders to test their habits and beliefs about how to run an organization.

This week’s graphic uses health system size and performance data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to illustrate what it means to be an average health system.