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Our research bridges the gap between where healthcare leaders are today and where they want to be tomorrow. We work hard to identify insights, strategies, and tools that help move healthcare forward. We can help you:
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Connect with an AskAdvisory expert by clicking the "Chat with us" button in the bottom-right corner of any page on advisory.com, and then click "Contact AskAdvisory" in the pop-up window. Under the "I have a question about" drop-down, select "Research." The most common support requested is "an email answer to a healthcare question," however, you can also request to speak with an expert directly, have a tool walkthrough, or receive help with a data analytics question.
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A top podcast for healthcare leaders with over two million downloads, Radio Advisory is your weekly download on how to untangle the industry's most pressing challenges to help leaders like you make the best business decisions for your organization.
From unpacking major trends in care delivery like site-of-care shifts and the rise of high-cost drugs, to demystifying stakeholder dynamics, to shining a spotlight on priorities that may get overlooked — we're here to help. Our hosts and seasoned researchers talk with industry experts to equip you with knowledge to confront today's unanswered questions in healthcare. New episodes drop every Tuesday.
Whether you're diving into a new topic or zeroing in on what matters most to you, our curated episode playlists make it easy to start listening. Each playlist brings together episodes tagged to specific themes — so you can get straight to the insights that matter.
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Advisory Board Fellowship is an immersive leadership laboratory and practice ground where your leaders will build next-level leadership capacity while advancing critical organizational priorities.
Over the past 20 years, Advisory Board Fellowship has supported hundreds of organizations and thousands of leaders, enabling them to thrive through truly differentiated leadership.
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Advisory Board’s data and tools are designed to help healthcare leaders make confident, strategic decisions based on data about their facility and their market. Our suite of tools supports a range of needs — from long-term market growth planning to detailed operational benchmarking — built on robust national datasets, rigorously maintained methodologies, and intuitive user interfaces. Check your membership to see which data and analytics tools your organization has access to.
Each tool has a dedicated landing page that provides a high-level overview of the tool’s purpose, methodology, and how to use the tool.
Organizations commonly use Advisory Board tools to answer questions such as:
Many members pair these tools with Advisory Board strategic planning resources to translate insights into concrete business decisions.
From any page on advisory.com, select "Tools" → "See all tools" in the main navigation to reach the central tools hub. This page provides an overview of all available tools and organizes them by primary use case, such as forecasting, performance & benchmarking, and post-acute care. Members may also access tools directly through links embedded in related research, tool spotlights, or AskAdvisory responses.
Each tool has a dedicated tool landing page that provides a high-level overview of the tool’s purpose, intended use cases, and the types of questions it is designed to answer. Within active tools, users can access tool-specific FAQs and walk-throughs.
Common sources include CMS Standard Analytical Files (Traditional Medicare inpatient, hospital outpatient, SNF, home health, hospice claims), Applied Geographic Solutions (demographics and consumer attributes), LexisNexis clinician rosters (specialty assignment), LexisNexis claims data sourced from Medicare and claims clearinghouses, CDC USCS and NCI SEER (cancer incidence), and Hospital Compare plus Medicare Cost Reports (quality and volume and inputs).
In terms of how frequently the data is refreshed, cadence varies by tool. Many Medicare claims tools refresh quarterly (aligned to CMS releases). Forecasting tools refresh annually to coincide with demographic model updates and source data availability.
Traditional Medicare offers comprehensive national coverage and consistent coding for facility-based services. While it represents only part of a hospital’s total population, it reliably indicates patterns in cost, length of stay, utilization, and care variation — and many findings generalize directionally across payers.
Tools align on service-line/MS-DRG/Outpatient Grouping definitions, apply risk adjustment where applicable (e.g., demographics, HCC), and use clear geographic attribution rules (e.g., patient origin vs. provider location) to support apples-to-apples benchmarking. See individual tool FAQs for more details.
We’ve organized our tools into three different categories:
Most of our tools combine measures, charts, and exportable tables with filters for geography, service lines, time frame, and provider attributes to enable quick scanning and deep dives.
Create service area definitions based on zip codes, counties, state, or radius. Users can also share market definitions with colleagues in Market Manager. Tools based on traditional Medicare claims data are limited to a county view; we automatically convert zip code-based markets into county definitions for those tools.
For inpatient analyses, Advisory Board uses MS-DRG codes rolled into clinically meaningful service lines. Download the full inpatient service line grouper here. For outpatient analyses, Advisory Board uses a proprietary Outpatient Procedure Group (OPG) methodology to roll CPT codes into service lines.
These service-line definitions are applied consistently across tools. For outpatient definitions, members may contact their Advisory Board representative or AskAdvisory.
Note: We can share outpatient definitions only with members who have created an advisory.com account.
Differences usually arise from variation in data sources. Some tools, like our Market Scenario Planner, are built on modeled data which extrapolate use rates onto the entire population to model all-payer claims. Modeled data will differ from actual historical claims data. Other tools, like our Medicare Market Explorer, are based on traditional Medicare beneficiary claims and will not match data from all-payer datasets.
Common reasons include NPIs not appearing on claims, facility absence from the selected market, low-volume combinations, or lack of traditional Medicare encounters during the selected period.
Tool-specific FAQs are available directly within each active tool. To access them, select the question mark (?) icon or the "Resources" drop-down in the top-right corner of the tool interface.
Email ask@advisory.com or contact your Advisory Board representative.
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Advisory Board AI is perfect for quick, self-service questions — plus, it provides seamless access to AskAdvisory experts when you need more guidance.
The Advisory Board AI function on our website pulls answers directly from our vetted research library — not the open web — with links to our original sources. This streamlines discovery and expands access through self-service while using healthcare specific context and terminology for more relevant answers compared to general AI tools.
Visit Advisory Board AI and type in your question, or use one of the sample questions to start the conversation.
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