Promoting financial literacy serves two important purposes. First, it makes everyone aware of the institution’s current financial health. Second, it makes everyone aware of what will be required to ensure the institution’s financial health over the long term.

In recent years, the Medicare Advantage (MA) program enjoyed both rapid membership growth and positive attention from healthcare organizations and advocates. As of the beginning of 2024, 33.4 million Americans were enrolled in MA, up 7% from 2023.

Telehealth company Hims & Hers unveils $199 weight-loss shots, CMS launches an emergency care complaint portal for patients, and the Senate Finance Committee signals interest in Medicare physician payment reforms.

After peaking in 2021, the average hospital’s registered nurse (RN) turnover and vacancy rates in 2023 have nearly returned to 2019 levels, at 18 percent and 10 percent respectively.

Steward Health Care’s recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing is one of the largest health system bankruptcies in recent memory. Although Steward is a for-profit system, there are important lessons that not-for-profit health system leaders can learn from the Steward bankruptcy.

Terri Wareham and Bobby Bruning joined a Finance, Administration & Operations Group (FAOG) webinar, where they highlighted best practices and key considerations for an investment consultant search process.

Walmart’s failure as a healthcare provider points to some big problems in U.S. healthcare, including a difficult business model, an unfriendly reimbursement model, and a basic healthcare expense-to-revenue problem.

Two Pennsylvania-based health systems sign a definitive merger agreement, and Ascension is hit by a ransomware attack.

With the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issuing a final rule that would ban noncompete agreements nationwide, the graphic below is our attempt to categorize the current status of complex state noncompete laws that affect physicians.

The decision to partner with another health system is always a high-stakes decision for a board. The creation of a community foundation is one way to ensure that a health system’s focus on its community remains intact, with new potential to improve the lives of community residents.

This week’s graphic highlights data from the Department of Health and Human Services on the increased number of cyberattacks hitting healthcare providers.

Following this week’s news of Kaiser Permanente’s Risant Health subsidiary closing its acquisition of Geisinger, the graphic below provides a framework for thinking about health system scale.