Category: Thought Leadership

At a conference with leading health system CFOs last week, participants shared valuable ideas, successes and struggles with their peers. Open discussions and panels provided thought-provoking insights for CFOs navigating today’s rapidly changing marketplace. Here are our four key take-aways: 1. Healthcare is dragging down the economy—and new players are entering to drive change One (…)

Physician alignment is essential as health systems move toward value-based models. Surveyed leading health systems point to several strategies they use to work with their providers as they change the way care is delivered, such as developing clinically integrated networks (CINs), supporting employee culture, developing communication and governance processes, and incorporating contract metrics around quality (…)

I travel a lot. In fact, I fly so much that the airlines I frequent actually treat me fairly well. In my role I get to engage with provider organizations across the country and come to understand the unique dynamics of each market I visit. While it can be argued that the uniqueness of each (…)

This Perspectives series looks at the challenges provider-sponsored health plans (PSHPs) can face. Part 1, Why Provider-Sponsored Health Plans Fail, examined the market dynamics motivating provider organizations to launch health plans. Part 2 discusses the need to focus on the key factors at launch that will drive success for a PSHP. When health systems look (…)

As health systems evaluate their ability to transition from fee-for-service medicine toward value-based care, they must understand the financial impact of their strategy. In our recent analysis, The Impact of Transitioning to Value on the Financials of a Health System, we investigate different strategic scenarios that a health system could pursue, ranging from keeping the (…)

Lumeris and The Health Management Academy (The Academy) are surveying leading health systems to understand strategic factors impacting their move to value. Each quarter, we bring data and insights covering our findings across key areas. Fill in the form to read the strategic survey reports: Defining risk: Determine how health system executives define risk in their (…)

Health systems across the country are facing tremendous financial pressures—from maintaining operating margins and profitability, to facing a shifting payer mix and stagnating reimbursement rates. These trends are creating challenges for health systems steeped in fee-for-service (FFS) care delivery. As a result, many systems are taking a hard look at their existing business model to (…)

Health system executives understand the move to value-based care is here. But accepting that reality doesn’t answer their questions about when and how to transition from a business model based on fee-for-service payment to one based on payment for value—without degrading their organizations’ financials. To help answer those questions, we analyzed a large regional health (…)

For years, vendors in the population health management space have been pushing technology as the solution to the inefficiency of the healthcare system. Many people believed that if you could gather the data and integrate it together, you could improve quality, cut costs and make everyone happy. But, we are now at a point where we see that technology alone is not the answer.