According to our fourth-annual State of Population Health Survey, progress toward such accountability has stalled. In large part, this is because progress requires providers to choose to put some portion of their revenues at risk, based on their ability to manage cost and quality. Years of pilot programs by the Department…
Healthcare consolidation took a new turn this year, and in a big way. On top of deals by Anthem and Optum to acquire delivery operations, the formation of the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan (ABJ) healthcare partnership has raised anxiety to unprecedented levels. Margin compression was already a fact…
The hospital model today stands in the crosswinds of market and nonmarket forces. On the market side, there is the hard reality that sustainable margins are required for financial viability. On the nonmarket side, there are a host of regulations to comply with, a mission that includes caring for those…
As a response to mounting healthcare costs and concerns about the quality of the care those dollars are buying, payers increasingly are exploring ways to bend the cost curve and improve quality to yield greater value. For healthcare delivery organizations in this environment, strategic alignment with clinicians has never been…
There is a looming population group poised to impact the US healthcare system with a voracious appetite for healthcare. The group has been dubbed the ‘silver tsunami’– a name that our research shows first appeared in a 2002 paper by University of Nevada, Reno professor Mary Finn Maples. So how…
The spiraling costs of healthcare in the U.S. have precipitated a tangible backlash — as demonstrated by the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010 — that suggests that demands for better care at lower cost are not simply going to go away. In light of…
