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A Yahoo Finance article entitled “The Vizient 2019 Connections Education Summit Set for September” highlights Governor Leavitt as one of the featured speakers during the general session at the Summit. View the article here.

This week we would like to highlight the Leavitt Partners Annual Strategy Conference, which took place August 1-2 in Chicago. The almost 200 representatives—including health system leaders, strategists from health care solutions companies, and C-suite level decision makers from pharmaceutical and payer organizations—gathered to discuss a strategic framework, key information & perspectives, as well as […]

In this paper, “Preventing Chronic Disease in the Rising-Risk Population: Three Strategies for ACOs Before, During, and After the Patient Engages in the Clinical Care Setting,” the American Medical Association (AMA) and Leavitt Partners offer strategies for health care organizations working within an alternative payment model to target the rising-risk population. These recommendations include: Identifying […]

As the United States continues to move toward a value-based health care system, significant challenges slow down our progress. Political pressure exists from all sides, incentives have yet to be appropriately aligned, and the pressing need to change stakeholder behavior remains a time-sensitive imperative. Solving these challenges requires going beyond admiring the challenges to implementing […]

Many factors, including rising health care costs, the transition to value-based payments, and technological innovations, are causing the health care landscape to change rapidly. Health care entities seeking to understand geographic market-level changes or to expand into new markets not only encounter an increasingly complex environment, but also must contend with the unique dynamics of […]

Salt Lake City, July 30, 2018 –Today, Leavitt Partners released “Health Care Markets: What Matters and Why,” a white paper that provides a framework for health care entities to make evidence-based decisions on when, where, and how to start, expand, or invest their business. Amidst a rapidly changing health care environment, a health care market […]

David Muhlestein provided insights regarding the three “What is Driving the Total Cost of Care?” white papers for a RevCycleIntelligence article entitled “ACOs and Other Value-Based Purchasing Models Have Yet to Cut Costs” and a FierceHealthcare article entitled “Report: Value-based payment models haven’t cut costs yet.” David told RevCycleIntelligence that, “Many healthcare providers began making […]

This morning, Health Affairs Blog published a post entitled “What’s Driving Health Care Costs?” that highlights major findings from the three mixed-methods studies conducted by Leavitt Partners, the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), and McManis Consulting released on Monday. The article further examines why population-based VBP models are not yet lowering market-Level health care costs. […]