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FRAZER BUNTIN & KATE ROLLINS   The new skills required to operate a value-based care business successfully are vast, and the financial return becomes viable only if a provider can go at-risk for enough lives to scale their investment. This reality is a major inhibitor to providers who want to move up the risk continuum and for those who tried and failed. Unfortunately, many value-based...

In an era of rising health care costs and consumer-driven financing alternatives, the need for health care cost transparency solutions has become increasingly important. Consumers demand information about their health care fees, and regulatory measures will continue to drive this need. In order to stay competitive, as well as responsive to market and patient needs, health care organizations...

BRUCE HAUPT   Healthcare organizations should be doubling down on patient retention, or keeping patients loyal to their health system, now more than ever. During the last few years, many providers have likely experienced higher inpatient volumes from newly insured Americans taking advantage of healthcare services for the first time; but as inpatient volumes stabilize—and perhaps even...