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Health Governance Report

Issue 5, April 1, 2013 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Healthcare's grim winter feels endless

  Healthcare organizations are seeking safety in numbers as a long winter of declining revenues...

• Providers awaken to sequestration

  Despite dooms-day hype, executives have been preparing for scenarios that call for doing more with...

• Hospital mergers unlikely to be affected by antitrust ruling

  A U.S. Supreme Court ruling on antitrust laws will likely have little effect on most hospital...

• Energy efficiency preserves hospital margins

  Healthcare CFOs are learning that energy-efficient solutions can help solidify long-term...

• Nonprofit hospitals urged to diversify endowments

  Healthcare organizations would be better off with more diversified and liquid portfolios and rating...

Issue 4, April 1, 2013 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Q&A: Rural AHA chair says ­reimbursement top challenge

  In an interview, the new chair of the American Hospital Association's Section for Small or Rural...

• CEO: Hospitals should be 'like the Maytag repair man'

  NCH Healthcare System CEO Allen Weiss, MD, is convinced that his health system's future lies in...

• Hang on for risk-bearing contracts, rewards

  The shift away from fee-for-service reimbursement models toward risk-bearing contracts is described...

• AHA: Hospitals a $2T economic driver

  Hospitals employ 5.5 million workers and spend billions of dollars on goods and services, but one...

• CMS unveils four bundled payment models

  Payment models introduced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are intended to drive...

Issue 3, March 1, 2013 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Nonprofits weigh benefits of buyer joint ventures

  Buyer joint ventures are growing in popularity. In these deals, nonprofit hospitals sell their...

• Getting reform right

  A variety of regulatory requirements burdens healthcare providers, and the PPACA just may be the...

• M&A strategies for small hospitals

  The creativity surrounding deals among hospitals and health systems is expanding rapidly. The...

Issue 2, February 1, 2013 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Seeds of dissatisfaction

  In our 2012 Industry Survey, one in five (19%) healthcare leaders report that they are not...

• How leaders evaluate leaders

  Senior healthcare leaders have no official playbook from which to evaluate how well they and their...

• Wright Lassiter's audacious vision for safety nets

  The CEO of Alameda County Medical Center is expanding its footprint in order to survive in the new...

• Q&A: Don Berwick reflects on healthcare reform

  In an interview, the former CMS administrator and co-founder of the Institute for Healthcare...

Issue 1, January 1, 2013 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Funding options for securing large capital

  Addressing a litany of government mandates while dealing with a sluggish economy and decreasing...

• Why financial success eludes majority of healthcare mergers

  Only four in 10 of all acquired hospitals outperformed their markets within two years of signing...

• AHA sues CMS over Medicare reimbursements

  The American Hospital Association and four health systems claim that the Centers for Medicare...

• Despite merger activity, negative credit conditions persist

  Healthcare consolidation, long predicted, is finally exploding. But the industry still faces stiff...