226: It’s time to double down on operational excellence: Live from Advisory Board’s Strategy Summit

October 15th, 2024  |  41 mins 3 secs

external guests, leadership, provider strategy and financial outlook

In this episode, recorded live at Advisory Board’s 2024 Strategy Summit, guest host Sarah Roller, Advisory Board Managing Director of Physician and Medical Group Research, explores what it takes for organizations to achieve peak operational performance with Dr. Mary Jo Cagle, CEO of Cone Health, and Dr. Cynthia Horner, Chief Medical Officer of Amwell and President of Amwell Medical Group.

225: Patients are back – so why aren't hospital margins?

October 8th, 2024  |  26 mins 18 secs

external guests, provider strategy and financial outlook

In this episode, host Abby Burns invites Advisory Board experts Sebastian Beckmann and Elizabeth Orr to break down why positive volume forecasts may not translate to a healthy financial outlook. Later, Abby invites Optum Advisory expert Alex Kist to share the story of how her team helped one health system unlock differentiated growth using their local and internal enterprise data.

224: The $400M referral problem (and steps to fixing it)

October 1st, 2024  |  24 mins 56 secs

physician landscape, provider strategy and financial outlook

This week, host Rachel (Rae) Woods invites Advisory Board physician experts Eliza Dailey and Colleen Wagner to unpack where referral leakage actually happens and share the real (and relatively easy) steps organizations can take to reduce referral leakage.

223: What would it take for home-based care to take off? With Medically Home's Dr. Matt Richards

September 24th, 2024  |  29 mins 55 secs

clinical innovation and affordability, external guests

This week, host Abby Burns invites Dr. Matthew Richards, Senior Medical Director of home-care enablement company Medically Home, to explore the role that home-base care could play in the future of healthcare, and to unpack the misconceptions that prevent home-based care from playing a larger role in the healthcare ecosystem today.

[Encore] What the industry is (still) getting wrong about value-based care

September 17th, 2024  |  27 mins 25 secs

In this episode, host Rachel Woods invites Advisory Board value-based care expert Daniel Kuzmanovich and Optum Advisory Service's SVP of value-based care, Erik Johnson, to discuss the mindset shifts they think leaders should be making when pursuing a sustainable value-based care strategy.

222: It's not just GLP-1s; here's what comprehensive weight management looks like

September 10th, 2024  |  25 mins 45 secs

clinical innovation and affordability, service lines

In this episode, host Abby Burns invites Advisory Board experts Chloe Bakst, Payton Grimes, and Atticus Raasch to break down how approaching obesity care holistically can help provider leaders avoid pitting services like bariatric surgery and GLP-1s against each other, and instead compound—rather than cannibalize—the impact each service has on patients, clinicians, and the system as a whole.

221: How will health system growth look different in 2025 and beyond?

September 3rd, 2024  |  25 mins 12 secs

provider strategy and financial outlook

In this episode, host Abby Burns invites Advisory Board health system experts Elizabeth Orr and Marisa Nives to break down how different types of health systems are thinking about growth for 2025 and beyond.

220: Why AI in healthcare is more than just ChatGPT

August 27th, 2024  |  26 mins 4 secs

tech and ai

In this episode, host Abby Burns invites Advisory Board digital health experts Ty Aderhold and Elysia Culver to explore an artificial intelligence model that some experts say is flying under the radar: Computer vision.

219: The business case for going green

August 20th, 2024  |  26 mins 57 secs

health policy, provider strategy and financial outlook

In this episode, host Abby Burns invites Advisory Board climate change expert Miles Cottier to break down how and why healthcare business leaders need to prioritize environmental sustainability. They explore the financial case for moving to renewable energy sources, how regulatory pressures may (or may not) shape the future of environmental action, and what leaders can do today to support their green initiatives.

218: [Encore + bonus content] Site-of-care shifts: It's time to go on offense

August 13th, 2024  |  37 mins 18 secs

provider strategy and financial outlook, service lines

This week, host Abby Burns invites Advisory Board expert Sebastian Beckmann back to Radio Advisory to provide an update—as promised—on what his team has uncovered about site-of-care shifts in the six months since he first brought this research to the pod. Hint: he argues there’s about $50B at play. This episode is a modified encore of Episode 195: Site-of-care shifts: It’s time to go on offense,” with bonus content from Abby and Sebastian.

[Encore] Test, fail, and test again: Morgan Health's approach to employer costs

August 6th, 2024  |  38 mins 54 secs

In this episode, host Rachel Woods invites Advisory Board payer expert Max Hakanson and Morgan Health innovation lead Rivka Friedman to discuss what employers can do to rein in healthcare costs, both for themselves and their employees.

[Encore] Why can't providers and plans just get along?

July 30th, 2024  |  31 mins 10 secs

In this episode, host Abby Burns invites Advisory Board experts Max Hakanson and Eileen Fennell to get to the bottom of escalating tensions between health plans and providers and give a peek behind the curtain of what their research suggests it will take for the two stakeholders to improve their relationships.