Length of stay affects many elements of a hospital’s financial performance, and it is also a key driver of patient satisfaction. Effective management of length of stay requires consistent leadership, and hospitalists are the logical choice to fill that leadership role.

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

A judge orders a partial, preliminary injunction of the FTC’s noncompete ban, Sanford Health and Marshfield Clinic announce plans to combine, and CMS proposes a nearly 3% cut to Medicare physician pay for 2025.

Artificial intelligence can provide the tool necessary to untangle complex healthcare agreements and contracts. In academic healthcare, this can support efforts to restore a funds flow model to what has been legally agreed to or negotiate a new funds flow agreement.

Two Pennsylvania-based health systems sign a definitive merger agreement, and Ascension is hit by a ransomware attack.

With the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issuing a final rule that would ban noncompete agreements nationwide, the graphic below is our attempt to categorize the current status of complex state noncompete laws that affect physicians.

Health system leaders can no longer afford to think of APPs as extenders or expensive scribes. They must work to effectively integrate APPs across clinical settings and develop the operational and financial data points needed to monitor the efficacy of that integration.

Overall labor expenses and revenue continue to rise, and Q1 2024 data show that labor represented 84% of total expenses. The median investment/subsidy per provider increased 2% compared to Q1 2023.

The employed physician model is coming under stress at many health systems. Given the growing financial pressures that health systems face, they must rethink how they are deploying scarce financial resources and physician talent across the enterprise.

A five-step design process used by the SpaceX engineering team provides a framework for healthcare leaders seeking to transform how patients access their health system.

Change Healthcare’s systems go down after a cyberattack, and UnitedHealth Group faces a federal antitrust probe.