This week’s graphic dives into a growing challenge facing health systems’ physician enterprises.

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 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.

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.

This week’s graphic highlights data from NSI Nursing Solutions, Inc., and details the current state of hospital turnover and nursing talent retention.

In this week’s graphic, we highlight nearly 30 years of historical data from Kaufman Hall and the American Hospital Association to provide a broader perspective on hospital operating margins.

Amid increased bipartisan interest from policymakers on the nation’s increasing medical debt burden (estimated to total at least $220B), this week’s graphic examines who holds medical debt and how recent changes to credit reporting have affected them.

In this week’s graphic, we use data from Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report and Syntellis Market Insights to assess the current state of hospital operating margins.

In this week’s graphic, we take stock of both the evolving usage and employer coverage of GLP-1 drugs, specifically for weight loss.

In this week’s graphic, we highlight the most recent data from software and analytics firm Strata Decision Technology to assess how hospital volumes have changed since 2022.

Using the latest data forecast from Sg2, a Vizient company, the graphic below illustrates how the outpatient shift will continue to accelerate through 2034.