The most recent National Hospital Flash Report highlights stabilizing hospital margins at the end of 2025.

Expanded pre-merger reporting rule struck, Amazon Pharmacy expands, younger adults are getting sicker

Learn why healthcare strategic partnerships falter and how to improve outcomes with credible business cases, aligned incentives, durable structures, rigorous due diligence, and simpler, effective agreements from real-world deal insights.

Explore how the loss of a family physician affects rural communities’ health access, economies, and quality of life in this Kaufman Hall Gist Healthcare Podcast episode featuring expert analysis on physician shortages and community impact.

This week’s graphic highlights data from Kaufman Hall’s recently published 2025 Hospital and Health System M&A in Review on the dynamics in health system merger and acquisition (M&A) activity.

Jobs report shows that healthcare powers the economy, ACO adoption continues to climb, cyberattacks at five-year high

Explore why improving perioperative performance requires a systemwide, team-based approach—not just fixing individual metrics—and how hospitals can optimize OR capacity, coordination, and decision-making for sustained performance improvement.

Physicians face higher rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide risk than the general population, yet most never seek mental health care. In this episode, Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, professor of anesthesiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Global Chief Medical Officer for AIDOC, discusses new JAMA research examining why. The conversation looks at how medical culture, stigma, time constraints and concerns about confidentiality or professional consequences can keep physicians from getting help, even when effective treatment exists.

Compensation is not keeping pace with physician productivity, while patient demand continues to rise and the proportion of advanced practice providers expands across the workforce.

Hospital performance settled into a “new normal” in 2025. Patient volumes continue to grow, and a persistent gap between gross and net operating revenue indicates an eroding payer mix and more uninsured patients.