Thoughts from Ken
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A New and Necessary Level of Operational Effectiveness
Hospitals face enormously complex operational challenges every day. The advanced analytics used by large commercial businesses can offer solutions that improve revenue, lower expenses, and enhance patient outcomes.
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The State of Play in Healthcare Antitrust Enforcement
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Walmart’s Primary Care Failure Is Important and a Problem
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A Different Way of Thinking About Hospital Closures
Thoughts from Lisa
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The Importance of Humility and a Memorable, Forgettable Rating Meeting
Rating meetings should include a meaningful discussion of notable achievements along with a frank, no-spin discussion of the risks the organization is facing. This balance will build credibility with the rating analyst and, ultimately, the rating committee.
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Steward Files for Bankruptcy and It Feels All Too Familiar
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Days Cash on Hand Does Not Tell the Full Liquidity Story
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Slow to Upgrade, Quick to Downgrade?
Gist Weekly
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Gist Weekly: July 12, 2024
A judge orders a partial, preliminary injunction of the FTC’s noncompete ban, Sanford Health and Marshfield Clinic announce plans to combine, and CMS proposes a nearly 3% cut to Medicare physician pay for 2025.
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Gist Weekly: June 28, 2024
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Gist Weekly: June 21, 2024
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Gist Weekly: June 14, 2024
Trending in Healthcare Treasury & Capital Markets
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The Balance Sheet Buffer
Balance sheet strength has buffered consumers and businesses from some of the restrictive shock of higher rates. With a relatively brittle revenue model in healthcare, the focus becomes whether, when, and how to restructure operations as balance sheets are spent down.
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External Capital Formation in a Higher Rate Environment
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Thoughts About a Governance Downgrade
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From Incremental to Multivariable Management
Payer Perspectives
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Medicaid Plans: Five Growth Opportunities, Post-Redetermination
For Medicaid plans that enjoyed a surge in business during the pandemic, this rapid decline in the market may be disheartening, and the large rapid shifts in the Medicaid risk pools will be challenging to manage to target profit margins in the near-term.
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ICHRA: The Great Bifurcation of the Employer’s Role in Health Insurance
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Health Insurance Exchanges: An Options + No Regrets Approach to Growth Amid Volatility
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The Employer Strikes Back: The Hollowing of the Commercial Health Insurance Market and Its Impact on Payers and Providers
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Emerging Risks to the Medicare Advantage Market
Sustaining Higher Education
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Financial Literacy and Strategic Financial Planning
Strategic planning and financial planning are highly interrelated and interdependent disciplines. Institutional financial literacy creates the perfect environment and means of communication in which an integrated strategic financial planning process can thrive.
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How to Promote Financial Literacy Within Your Institution
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Financial Literacy: A Leadership Prerequisite
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Do You Really Know Your Institution’s Financial Position?
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