Strategy

Paul Krakovitz, MD, became CEO of Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health on March 16, roughly 15 months after the five-hospital system joined Risant Health, the nonprofit created by Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Krakovitz previously held leadership roles at Cressey &…

From the Northwest to the Midwest to the Northeast, health systems are navigating financial recoveries shaped by distinct pressures — different payer mixes, different market structures and different starting points.  Renton, Wash.-based Providence, St. Louis-based Ascension and Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health…

Eighteen months into his tenure as president and CEO of Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network, Mark Sevco has presided over a financial recovery that transformed the system’s operating position in two years. In 2024, AHN recorded a $140 million operating loss.…

Healthcare leaders face a growing paradox: while AI is rapidly reducing the cost of administrative work, most revenue cycle contracts remain anchored to assumptions about labor, staffing, workflows and productivity that are no longer realistic. Margin pressure, revenue shortfall, workforce…

The consensus heading into 2027 is clear: The ambulatory care boom is not over.  Outpatient services accounted for 57% of hospital revenue as of 2024, up from 52% in 2020, according to American Hospital Association data, and the AHA’s Sg2…

Most large health systems can build a strategy. Executing one is a different problem and Liz Popwell, system vice president of strategy and international at Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, says it is the challenge her peers most consistently underestimate. “Organizations struggle…

What to Know The disconnect between compensation and production is widening and reshaping the provider workforce. Across adult, academic, and pediatric specialties, compensation continues to rise faster than WRVUs and collections. In ECG’s 2026 ECG Physician and APP Compensation Survey, adult…

Two decades ago, we in healthcare conducted employee surveys annually (or even bi-annually) to gauge what we called “employee satisfaction.” As the thinking about satisfaction evolved (and we replaced less-useful questions on the survey like “parking” with more-useful questions like…

Roughly two-thirds of Medicare’s improper payments1 trace back to missing or insufficient documentation. For a decade, the industry’s answer has been to fix that downstream in the form of better queries, faster attestations, and bigger appeal teams. Now that CMS…

For a decade, cardiology’s exposure to value-based payment has run largely through the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, or MIPS — a program that scores group practices and moves payments modestly. The next model raises the stakes. On Jan. 1, 2027,…