A recent study published in the American Heart Associations’ journal Circulation identified a concerning trend: When patients diagnosed with a stroke need to be transferred from a community hospital to a specialty center for endovascular treatment (EVT—mechanical...

Patient leakage from a health system network is an emerging critical issue facing healthcare leaders. As Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements continue to negatively affect operating margins for even high-performing health systems, competition for privately insured...

Health systems face many competing care quality and financial performance improvement priorities and new risk-based revenue arrangements. Faced with these challenges, it is no wonder that some health systems have not considered how increasing patient transfers from...