A podcast on the key issues in healthcare, featuring innovators from across the industry.
We power our members by building our community and fostering connections through executive peer learning. We support professional growth through talent and development. We accelerate understanding by delivering timely and actionable data and insights on key challenges. And we catalyze transformation by building alliances in areas where the power of the collective is greater than the power of one.
Across two days of sessions and peer discussions, we tackled big picture issues like the shifting political environment, and more personal issues like career development and team organization.
This week's episode covers Humana's acquisition of MaxHealth, the Trump administration's antitrust appeal, the Supreme Court's tariff ruling, CMS's new ACCESS model rates, and CVS's new GLP-1 drug access service.
Explore insights from 12 health systems’ strategic plans. Uncover priorities, gaps in AI and policy, and approaches to growth, workforce, and digital strategy.
Explore The Academy’s Strategic Plan Compendium, featuring insights from 12 health systems across regions and revenue sizes. See how AMCs and non-AMCs are shaping future strategies in workforce, advocacy, and health system growth.
health systems, workforce strategy, clinician shortages, technology adoption, AI, staffing challenges, care model redesign, healthcare executives, cost containment, virtual care
Our Strategy Catalyst team recently convened a group of Leading Health System (LHS) chief strategy officers (CSOs) to discuss the most pressing topics that are top of mind.
Doctors, hospitals, and payers in California will be limited to annual price increases of 3% beginning in 2029, under a new rule approved by state regulators.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Walgreens is in talks to sell itself to the PE firm Sycamore Partners in a deal that would take the company private after a decade-long slide in its stock market price.
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Across H1 2024, the Strategy Catalyst team presented our MA research to dozens of CSOs, CFOs, VPFs, CPEs, and CRCOs and prompted discussions around how they are rethinking their MA strategies. This brief summarizes the strategies and themes discussed.
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