Insights

Leavitt Partners Insight Launches New Tool to Help Hospitals Rapidly Identify Resources and Capacity-Increasing Interventions to Enhance Their Operational Response to COVID-19

Salt Lake City, April 13, 2020 –Today, Leavitt Partners Insight (LPI), provider of Torch Insight™, launched the COVID-19 Burden Index to aid U.S. health care providers and public health officials in tracking and measuring the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tool estimates, in near-real-time, the percent of normal hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) … Read more

Leavitt Partners Releases “No Evidence That ACO-Affiliated Hospitals Are Narrowing Their PAC Networks” White Paper

Salt Lake City, May 22, 2019—Today, Leavitt Partners released a white paper titled “No Evidence That ACO-Affiliated Hospitals are Narrowing Their PAC Networks.” This white paper details the findings from an analysis of Medicare claims data that was compared with Accountable Care Organization (ACO) affiliation data from Torch Insight™, a proprietary analytics platform and compendium … Read more

Micro-Hospitals: A Unique Opportunity to Deliver Care to Underserved Areas Amidst the Transition to Value

Micro-Hospitals Defined While the health care industry continues to shift from volume to value, costs of inpatient care continue to rise, averaging $2,346 per inpatient per day. Consequently, payers and providers are seeking new ways to reduce hospital length of stay (LOS) and deliver care at less costly locations. One such mechanism is the emerging trend … Read more

Delivering on the Promise of a Patient First Health Care System: A Compromise Approach to Site-Neutral Payments

Today, Leavitt Partners released a new policy framework that proposes a compromise path forward on implementing site-neutral payments. Medicare is an incredibly important program, providing more than 65 million Americans with access to robust health care benefits. As the program has grown, mounting concerns have been raised about its affordability for Medicare beneficiaries and the … Read more

New Alliance Aims to Boost Health Care Access for Tribal Communities

25 Tribal Organizations, Medical Schools and Others to Advocate for Policies that Empower New Physicians to Practice in Tribal Communities. Today, 25 urban and rural Tribal organizations, medical schools, health plans, teaching hospitals, medical residencies, and physician advocates launched the American Indian Medical Education Strategies (AIMES) Alliance. The AIMES Alliance, whose mission is to address … Read more

Supporting Pharmacy Data Interoperability: An Imperative for Patient Access and Outcomes

Pharmacy provision of clinical services is important to patient access and outcomes. As patients access more services from pharmacies, the data interoperability of those pharmacies becomes more important to the healthcare system at-large. Pharmacy teams’ ability to provide optimal care and meaningfully contribute to the value-based care transformation depends on their ability to access and … Read more

Leavitt Partners Report Identifies Strategies to Improve Pharmacy Data Interoperability

Today, Leavitt Partners, an HMA Company released a report outlining steps federal and state policymakers, technology and electronic health record (EHR) companies, health plans, pharmacies, and other healthcare providers can take to strengthen pharmacy data interoperability. As patients access more services from pharmacies, the data interoperability of those pharmacies becomes increasingly important to patients and … Read more

Public Health

How We Help With Public Health Organizations Leavitt Partners’ experts have decades of experience working in the private and public health sectors as well as in the executive and legislative branches of the government. In response to this pandemic, Leavitt Partners has developed services to help clients address today’s urgency, while preparing for the new … Read more

Government

How We Help Government Organizations Leavitt Partners offers a seasoned team of health care leaders and policy experts with extensive private- and public-sector experience across the health care industry. Our vast experience and significant policy expertise uniquely positions us to advise and inform clients on the impact of federal and state health care issues. Why … Read more