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Health system finances are at risk of disruption in today’s policy environment. Our scenario planning advice details a three-step approach to help leaders anticipate and adapt to regulatory changes.

How to stay financially resilient amid healthcare policy shifts

A landmark law reshapes U.S. healthcare. Host Rae Woods explores the impact on coverage and costs, unpacks who’s most at risk, and shares how leaders can start preparing today.

Ep. 258: The ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill Act’: What’s changing, who’s affected, and what to do now

Recent federal funding cuts are reshaping the healthcare research landscape. Here's where the cuts stand, what their potential effects are, and how providers are responding.

How research funding cuts are impacting healthcare (and how to respond)

A landmark law reshapes U.S. healthcare. Host Rae Woods explores the impact on coverage and costs, unpacks who’s most at risk, and shares how leaders can start preparing today.

Ep. 258: The ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill Act’: What’s changing, who’s affected, and what to do now

Live from the 2025 Summit: Paul Markovich on bold bets, healthcare reform, and leading with purpose in a time of rising pressure.

Ep. 257: Paul Markovich on new builds, breakups, and bold healthcare bets

Diagnostic Audit

Utilization management self-assessment: Find out where your organization stands

Assess your organization's utilization management (UM) practices to enhance outcomes, reduce costs, and improve the overall member and provider experience.

Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions impose a significant burden on patients and the healthcare system. Often fragmented care and an overreliance on imaging and surgical interventions limits effective outcomes and exacerbates financial strain. Use this eBook to help understand where these challenges persist in the status quo and how to drive more accessible, value-driven MSK care.

Redefining musculoskeletal care: Appropriate, personalized, and value-driven solutions

Get insight into the key trends in the health plan market and learn how to better understand your customers, help them meet their goals, and build lasting partnerships.

Understand your customer: Health plans

Market Insights

5 key insights into today's health plan CMO

We spoke directly with health plan chief medical officers to understand how the CMO role is evolving, what these leaders are prioritizing, and how external partners can engage more effectively.

Get insight into the key trends in the health plan market and learn how to better understand your customers, help them meet their goals, and build lasting partnerships.

Understand your customer: Health plans

Providers have been trying to improve patient access for years—but wait times for medical appointments are actually getting longer. Where are medical groups going wrong, and how should they be thinking about access instead?

Ep. 253: A new way to measure patient access

Market Insights

Survey insights: What to know about the clinician workforce today

Advisory Board and LocumTenens.com asked over 700 physicians and advanced practice providers about job satisfaction and work preferences. Use our findings to enhance your recruitment and retention strategies.

Get insight into the key trends in the health plan market and learn how to better understand your customers, help them meet their goals, and build lasting partnerships.

Understand your customer: Health plans

In the face of uncertainty caused by recent tariffs, healthcare leaders must proactively address supply chain challenges. Learn essential strategies for responding to tariffs — and what to avoid.

How supply chain leaders should (and shouldn't) respond to tariffs

Learn how health systems are changing how they define product value with insights from more than 50 leaders in value analysis committees (VACs) and pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committees.

Survey results: Insights on health system purchasing today

Get insight into the key trends in the health plan market and learn how to better understand your customers, help them meet their goals, and build lasting partnerships.

Understand your customer: Health plans

Learn how health systems are changing how they define product value with insights from more than 50 leaders in value analysis committees (VACs) and pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committees.

Survey results: Insights on health system purchasing today

Former CMMI director Liz Fowler and former Deputy HHS Secretary Eric Hargan discuss navigating an uncertain policy environment and effectively engaging with the federal government.

Ep. 251: Former HHS leaders weigh in on navigating Trump 2.0 (and answer your questions)

Redefining musculoskeletal care: Appropriate, personalized, and value-driven solutions

Learn about how the 340B drug program works and why it matters to healthcare stakeholders.

340B Drug Pricing Program

ICHRAs are gaining attention as an employer-sponsored health benefit option. Learn about ICHRAs and their potential impact on employers, health plans, providers, and healthcare vendors.

Individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements (ICHRAs)

On September 27, 2024, Ballad Health was forced to evacuate 70 people from the rooftop of a small community hospital in rural Tennessee after Hurricane Helene caused a freak flash flood. This week, Lisa Carter, President of Ballad Health’s Southern Region, joins Radio Advisory to recount the events of that day, reflect on the decisions and challenges she faced as a leader during the crisis, and share why every healthcare organization needs to think differently about climate-related disaster preparedness.

Ep. 241: When disaster strikes: Evacuating Unicoi hospital

With public insurance spending on the rise, federal regulators are deploying well-known cost-control tactics, such as rate cuts and value-based payment models. While physicians bear the brunt of rate cuts today, the entire industry must learn to adapt to an enduring hybrid payment environment.

How federal cost control tactics promote an enduring hybrid payment environment

As the health policy landscape in 2025 unfolds, federal power is limited and state policymakers are taking the lead, implementing transformative policies in the absence of federal action. Discover how this dynamic is shaping the healthcare operating environment and what it means for healthcare organizations navigating the regulatory landscape.

How federalism will shape health policy in 2025

Unpack the implications of the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) on healthcare AI tools and data ethics, from risk classification to compliance requirements.

The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act

Hospital volumes have returned—in fact, maybe too much. With hospitals at—or even over—capacity, hospital leaders need to find ways to improve throughput and reduce length of stay. In this episode, host Rachel Woods invites Advisory Board expert Isis Monteiro to break down where health systems are running into roadblocks and share strategies to help leaders hone their acute care operating models.

Ep. 240: Hospitals are at capacity. What can we actually do about it?

Case Study

Western Health’s 4-step approach to reducing nurse workloads

Learn how Western Health successfully ceded authority over transforming the frontline workload to nurses, resulting in a significant decrease in adverse incidents and missed elements of care.

Get insight into the key trends in the health plan market and learn how to better understand your customers, help them meet their goals, and build lasting partnerships.

Understand your customer: Health plans

Discover how to prove to payers that your intervention reduces the total cost of care (TCOC) with a deep dive into the most effective evaluation method and the success story of virtual GI clinic Oshi Health.

You’ve figured out a way to reduce care costs. Now, prove it to payers.

Learn how health systems are changing how they define product value with insights from more than 50 leaders in value analysis committees (VACs) and pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committees.

Survey results: Insights on health system purchasing today

Get insight into the key trends in the health plan market and learn how to better understand your customers, help them meet their goals, and build lasting partnerships.

Understand your customer: Health plans

Learn about how the 340B drug program works and why it matters to healthcare stakeholders.

340B Drug Pricing Program

Post-acute facilities are facing challenges that directly translate to hospital operations. Want to realize the potential of post-acute care? It might be time to partner (instead of building/buying).

Ep. 247: How hospitals and post-acute providers can rebuild their relationships (and why they need to)

Learn about how the 340B drug program works and why it matters to healthcare stakeholders.

340B Drug Pricing Program

ICHRAs are gaining attention as an employer-sponsored health benefit option. Learn about ICHRAs and their potential impact on employers, health plans, providers, and healthcare vendors.

Individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements (ICHRAs)

How federal cost control tactics promote an enduring hybrid payment environment

Data and analytics tool spotlight

Decision Guide

See historical and future data in the enhanced Demographic Profiler

See current and future demographics for your market, including age, race, gender, income, household structure, health behaviors, and more. Now, you can also access and export historical data for each metric for up to 5 years.

Estimator

Find your next opportunity with the Market Scenario Planner

Our most popular forecasting tool can project future patient utilization of services for any geographic region and model the impact of five key drivers of change that best reflect specific markets.

Estimator

Get market-level supply data using the Clinician Supply Profiler

See which physician specialties are relatively under- or oversupplied in your market compared to different health referral regions to make more informed specialty investment decisions.

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