In today’s data-driven healthcare environment, the quality of financial data directly impacts an organization’s ability to operate efficiently, remain compliant, and sustain long-term performance. Yet, inaccuracies and inconsistencies continue to undermine billing, reimbursement, forecasting, and value-based care initiatives.
Key findings from our Q2 2025 report include:
In an unpredictable healthcare landscape, understanding how your hospital compares to similar organizations is essential for building financial stability and driving improvement. This e-book outlines six practical steps for using comparative analytics to uncover opportunities, benchmark progress, and guide smarter decisions.
By comparing your performance to local and regional peers, you can:
As healthcare leaders navigate an ever-changing healthcare environment, they need a strategy that allows them to remain nimble in response to shifting market conditions. Service line planning allows organizations to continually analyze their operations to drive informed decision-making in real time. Yet many organizations face barriers, such as varied service line definitions, misaligned incentives, or unreliable data.
Key findings from our Q2 2025 report include:
Financial performance stabilized for many healthcare organizations throughout 2024, and healthcare leaders are cautiously optimistic they’ll retain those financial gains in 2025. Our annual survey of healthcare finance professionals found that more than two in five (44%) said they expect operating margins will remain about the same from 2024 to 2025, while over a third (36%) expect operating margins will increase.
Join peers, Strata experts, and industry leaders for two days of insightful sessions, and hear how healthcare organizations across the country are tackling today’s biggest challenges. Leaders from peer organizations will share best practices that will help you propel your organization’s financial planning, analytics, and performance processes.
CHICAGO, October 22, 2025 – Strata Decision Technology welcomed healthcare finance leaders this week to LIFT25: The Strata Users Virtual Summit, held October 21–23. The annual event brought together professionals from hospitals, health systems, and healthcare organizations nationwide to share strategies for improving performance and resilience in an era of rising costs, labor shortages, and mounting financial pressure.
Join your healthcare provider colleagues from the Nashville area to exchange strategies for tackling some of today’s biggest industry challenges. This unique event is meant to connect leaders from across the region, build relationships, and facilitate conversations around emerging trends and how to leverage Strata solutions and services to positively position your organization for success.
Grouping software is a critical tool for assigning diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) and ambulatory patient classifications (APCs) — and the more precise the grouping, the more accurate healthcare organizations can be with their billing, reimbursement, and analysis.
