A decade ago, pundits were beating the drum about “bigness,” saying things like: “You need to get bigger.” “You need to have scale.” “You need local market dominance to matter.” Similarly, healthcare leaders were told: “This is the only way to get to value.” “This is the only way to…
Consumers’ dissatisfaction with our current healthcare system has existed for years, yet we still hope and pray it gets better. Instead of waiting for the industry to fix itself, some employers—whose health plans allow most Americans to afford healthcare services—have taken matters into their own hands. They’ve chosen to dedicate…
The healthcare industry is ripe with opportunity. It’s a $3 trillion market whose customers mostly feel they pay too much for what they get. The growing linkage of provider reimbursement to cost and outcomes creates room for innovators whose product or service can lower cost or improve outcomes. This is…
The U.S. healthcare landscape is rapidly being reshaped by a variety of economic, political, and socio-demographic forces. While the issue of health insurance has dominated much of the national dialogue, most agree that changing the way that healthcare is delivered and paid for is needed to get to better care…
With articles about health system mergers and acquisitions becoming a regular fixture in business publications, why is it that anticipated benefits of mergers remain so elusive? Despite countless hours of time spent on identifying the “perfect” partner or target, conducting due diligence, surviving hard fought negotiations, and executing exquisitely detailed…
As the healthcare industry continues to move toward value-based delivery and payment models, payers must rethink the way they engage with provider partners. Building new payer-provider collaborations will be critical to success in a value-based healthcare world where both parties share financial risk for achieving health outcomes. Under such models,…
