Summer seasonal surges are colliding with physician, NP, and PA shortages. Health systems that treat workforce planning as capacity planning can protect access even when staffing is constrained.

Hospitals today are far more than acute care facilities - they are integrated health systems providing outpatient services, rehabilitation, specialty care, diagnostics, and a broad range of ancillary services across entire communities.

“We're seeing increasingly the recognition that our industry, which used to be very much driven by the healthcare provider, is setting out more and more the expectation that consumers are in the driver's seat”

While sometimes patient leakage is just a result of patient choice, often the issue lies with employed or contracted physicians referring patients for services outside the network.

Two final rules from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that aim to reduce regulatory barriers to care coordination and accelerate the transformation of the healthcare system.

New rules effort to remove potential regulatory barriers under the fraud and abuse laws to care coordination and value-based care.