Achieving “smart scale”: Insights from today’s high-performing health systems
Senior healthcare leaders and board members routinely ask us the following two questions: In our experience, exploring the answers to these questions can lead organizations down a variety of strategic paths, and most organizations have not yet developed a clear perspective on how they intend to make the most of greater scale. Our view is…
The Healthcare CFO of the Future: Turning risk into opportunity
The role of the healthcare CFO is evolving — and so are the skills needed for success. Here, CFOs and industry experts explore the new competencies CFOs must possess and how leaders in this space are preparing for the future.
Advancing Healthcare Access
About this report Throughout the United States, hospitals and health systems continue to explore strategies to address and expand health access. Effective health access strategy is achieved by ensuring that all individuals have the opportunity to achieve optimal health through standard business processes that are clear, accessible and inclusive. This approach fosters a healthcare environment…
How to develop a playbook to provide patients with timely access to care
If you reviewed the new Vizient/Kaufman Hall 2025 Trends Report, Strategy is (finally) back in the driver’s seat, you might have noticed one startling data point: A 1% increase in “loyal” patients (that is, patients who spend at least three quarters of their healthcare dollars within one health system) can yield a $40 million revenue…
The IPPS proposed rule, and tackling charge capture issues
Nick Hut and Shawn Stack discuss the proposed rule for the Inpatient Prospective Payment System. Later, Taylor Searfoss, a vice president at Ni2, an Infinx company, discusses challenges in charge capture.
Leading through the reset: 8 implications of the VC market contraction for healthcare leaders
Healthcare executives face a stark new reality in the digital health landscape. During and immediately after the COVID-19-pandemic, healthcare technology came to be seen as a panacea for addressing the systemic flaws in our delivery system. This perception spurred an explosion of venture capital (VC) financing and digital adoption: This collective momentum pushed VC funding…
How healthcare organizations can build resiliency and drive growth in a challenging financial environment
Dive into this roundtable featuring five healthcare revenue cycle management executives who share their strategies for building and maintaining financial resiliency including investing in smarter technologies to elevate patient experience, capturing charges and streamlining operations.
News Briefs: Dr. Oz describes changes he would bring to Medicaid, Medicare Advantage
During his Senate confirmation hearing for the post of CMS administrator, Mehmet Oz, MD, was not asked about his past endorsement of a Medicare Advantage (MA) for All model, in which MA would expand to cover most Americans. He did sound willing to take action against MA insurers that allegedly overcharge the government through methods…
With finances more stable, healthcare CFOs eye growth opportunities
Even with lingering financial constraints, healthcare CFOs see room for initiatives that will help their organizations enhance revenue and perhaps even profitability. “We’re finally in that post-pandemic phase in the sense that organizations are starting to see margins stabilize,” said Alina Henderson, vice president for healthcare solutions with Strata Decision Technology. In Strata’s survey (registration…
Strata Decision Technology helps healthcare organizations make informed decisions
Find out how one company provides more than 750 healthcare organizations with supportive tools and partnership to build success around stakeholders, strategy, leaders and so forth.