Budget request includes healthcare cuts, stricter vetting slows physician pipeline, insurers reduce prior auths

CMS memo outlines expectations for hospital food and nutritional services, GLP-1 pill approved, new HHS/CMS advisory committee announced

Explore how non-acute partnerships can drive strategic growth, improve care delivery, and create value beyond traditional scale in today’s evolving healthcare landscape.

Reimbursement reform is reshaping outpatient care. Learn how health systems can redesign ambulatory strategy, optimize site of care and protect margins in a lower-cost environment.

Explore Kaufman Hall’s Gist Weekly for March 27, 2026—featuring expert analysis of the latest healthcare policy, business trends, and industry developments shaping leaders’ decisions.

Explore how advanced analytics and strategic foresight are reshaping payer forecasting—helping healthcare leaders anticipate reimbursement trends, navigate uncertainty, and make smarter financial decisions.

This week’s Gist Weekly covers major healthcare developments, including Stryker cyberattacks, Aetna’s settlement with the Justice Department, and a court blocking HHS vaccine schedule changes, with expert analysis for industry leaders.

Court orders Leapfrog Group to remove some safety grades, non-network plans proposed for ACA, healthcare jobs drop following strikes

Maternal mortality declines, health system suffers a cyberattack, Medicare Advantage enrollment growth slows

At recent Vizient CEO Networks meetings, discussions focused on how structural pressure, chronic disease and AI are converging—and why executive alignment will determine what comes next.

Read the Gist Weekly for February 27, 2026 — expert analysis on the latest healthcare trends, including measles outbreaks, major hospital strikes ending, Medicare trust fund projections, and industry policy shifts to help leaders stay informed.

The last decade in healthcare has focused on building scale through mergers, diversification and integration. But scale alone does not guarantee coordination, access or performance. In this perspective, Vizient CEO Byron Jobe explains why systemness in healthcare is no longer a strategic preference but an operational imperative.