Direct to employer healthcare, sometimes called direct contracting or DTE arrangements, has rich benefits for everyone involved — particularly the health system itself. To unlock these benefits, however, it’s important to understand what this relationship looks like,...

What’s your New Year’s goal for 2023? If you’re like many health systems across the U.S., it may be something along the lines of “increase patient volume by X%.” It’s a worthy goal, to be sure, but it also includes unique challenges. As health systems struggle to keep...

If you’ve considered direct contracting but haven’t yet taken the plunge, now could be the ideal time. Costs are skyrocketing for health systems. The reality of cutthroat industry competition means health systems need innovation to stay ahead of the curve. Working...

Increasingly, health systems are realizing that direct contracting is the way to stay competitive in the healthcare marketplace. When health systems contract directly with employers, they instantly gain large rosters of new patients. By eliminating traditional...

As healthcare systems continue to have margins squeezed and pressure on the bottom line intensifies, many are wondering: Are there places where I’m leaving money on the table? If your health system is still working under the traditional insurance model, the answer is...

For several years, hospitals have been merging in an attempt to streamline their operations and increase their buying power through volume. Today there are very few stand-alone hospitals. Most are part of a bigger hospital group, or health system. Sometimes called an...