Abby is a researcher, speaker, and facilitator who helps bring Advisory Board research to life. Her areas of focus include macro healthcare industry trends and behavioral health, and she has a special interest in health system strategy and population health management.
Abby Burns has hosted 19 Episodes.
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232: The rise of ICHRAs: Why some employers are turning to the individual market
November 26th, 2024 | 31 mins 2 secs
In this episode, host Abby Burns invites Advisory Board health plan expert Morghen Philippi to shed light on a recent addition to the health insurance landscape that’s aimed at curbing cost growth: ICHRAs. They’ll unpack what ICHRAs actually are, how employers, plans, and providers are responding to their rise, and what leaders need to keep an eye on when it comes to these plans.
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231: Big deal, little deal, or no deal? A 2024 health policy retrospective
November 19th, 2024 | 40 mins 52 secs
clinical innovation and affordability, physician landscape, provider strategy and financial outlook, value-based care
Drugs, docs, and mandatory payment models. In this episode, host Abby Burns invites Advisory Board experts Gina Lohr, Sarah Roller, and Paul Trigonoplos to unpack three major health policy topics of 2024. The experts explore how these policies are affecting the industry, how the elections outcomes may impact them, and, critically, how much attention leaders need to pay them going forward.
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230: Elections results are in: What healthcare leaders need to know
November 12th, 2024 | 45 mins 10 secs
clinical innovation and affordability, leadership, provider strategy and financial outlook
The 2024 elections are over. In this episode, hosts Rachel Woods and Abby Burns invite Advisory Board experts Natalie Trebes and Ben Palmer to break down what healthcare leaders can anticipate under incoming federal and state leadership bodies, what impacts new leadership is likely to have on key issue areas like the ACA, Medicaid, drug pricing, abortion, and more, and what we will be watching for in the days, weeks, and months to come. And, of course, what it all means for you, our listeners.
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227: The changing tide of Medicare Advantage
October 22nd, 2024 | 20 mins 29 secs
physician landscape, provider strategy and financial outlook
Hosts Rachel Woods and Abby Burns sit down with Advisory Board health plan experts Max Hakanson and Chelsea Needham to make sense of the challenges and changes in the Medicare Advantage market.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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215: Why Walmart and other retailers are exiting primary care delivery and why it matters
July 9th, 2024 | 28 mins 13 secs
industry consolidation
Large retailers like CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart have been steadily growing their care delivery footprints over the last several years—but recent developments suggest that the tide may be turning.
In the wake of Walmart’s late April announcement that it’s closing down its primary care operations, host Abby Burns invites Advisory Board experts Vidal Seegobin, Natalie Trebes, and Eliza Dailey to push past the headlines and decipher why Walmart and other retailers are now retrenching on primary care delivery investments. And, of course, what this means for incumbent providers.