Provider-Sponsored Health Plans: Cautions and Opportunities
Hospitals and health systems that are contemplating establishing a provider-sponsored health plan face considerable challenges today in such an undertaking, but it can be an effective strategy for some.
Healthcare Delivery Disruption: Four Practical, Strategic Approaches
Craig Allan Ahrens and David Fairchild discuss the opportunities healthcare organizations have to employ disruption strategies.
Video: The Benefits of Behavioral Economics
David Asch, MD, executive director of the Penn Medicine Center for Healthcare Innovation, discusses how behavioral economics can help the healthcare industry enable health-oriented behavior.
CEOs Meet to Discuss Critical Healthcare Trends
This article highlights a white paper that shares top insights from a Fall 2017 gathering of senior healthcare leaders. Within the meeting, executives offered their perspectives on healthcare trends and gave recommendations for future work.
Has Value Become a Buzzword?
Our shared vision of value is at risk. We won’t attain high-value health care unless we agree on what that means.
12-Year Trend Shows Steady Rise in Acute Care Hospital Administrative and General Costs
An analysis of Medicare cost reports shows that U.S. Hospitals saw a gradual increase in their administrative and general costs from 2004 through 2016.
Developing a Future Generation Integrated Healthcare System
To envision new and better ways to rapidly reduce healthcare costs, the U.S. healthcare industry should take a lesson from approaches used by other countries, including China.
Revolutionary Medicine: Can Less Sometimes Be More?
The Cuban health system, although challenged by economic issues, has some important lessons to offer the United States when it comes to population health management.
Increasing Consumer Engagement and Empowerment to Drive Value in Health Care
Trends toward increased consumer cost-sharing, consumer engagement, and calls for transparency have significant implications for U.S. hospitals.
ALOS Analysis Reveals Significant Regional Variances
An analysis of average length of stay looking at U.S. hospitals identified noteworthy variation among states within each of four regions.