What is Dynamic Planning and Why Do It?
August 20, 2019
Dynamic Planning is a process that embodies a set of leadership and management principles that allow organizations to maximize their responsiveness to ever-changing market conditions.
A Guide to Activity Based Costing in Healthcare
June 3, 2021
As healthcare organizations across the country transition into COVID-19 recovery, leaders are seeking new and agile ways to drive margin and revenue. Many are turning to advanced cost accounting methodologies like Time-Driven Costing (TDC) as a way to leverage cost and financial data that can empower their clinical, operations and finance teams to make better decisions.
What Keeps CFOs Up at Night? Key Concerns for Financial Institution Leaders in 2024
2023 was fraught with challenges for the financial services industry, so it’s no surprise that financial institution CFOs have concerns about the year ahead. Following last year’s high-profile bank failures, shifting consumer preferences, and rising competition, finance leaders must consider how to strengthen their institutions for an uncertain future.
Market Insights Solution - Retheme
Designed for healthcare consultants, Market Insights offers the industry’s most timely, detailed, and extensive hospital, non-acute, and physician analytics across the care continuum.
The healthcare market context you need to ensure a strong bottom line for your clients
In the competitive world of healthcare consulting, firms must constantly deliver differentiated value to clients while positioning themselves as authorities by delivering strategic insights that others lack.
Each month, Market Insights for healthcare compiles data from thousands of acute and non-acute facilities nationwide to give you the most objective and current view into the evolving healthcare market landscape. Leveraging these insights, you can accurately compare an individual organization’s performance to peers, set improvement targets, guide organizational change, and evaluate the success of transformation efforts.
Key Features:
- Source: Data harvested directly from business systems
- Current: Monthly data updates include the prior month
- Size: Data from more than 4,000 healthcare entities, including over 1,900 hospitals and 135,000 physicians
- Breadth: Acute care, non-acute, and physician
- Detail: Metrics available in several data subscription options, including Financial/Operational, Physician, Cost & Margins, and Service Line & Procedure Volumes
- Methodology: Powered by Strata Signal, objective apples-to-apples comparisons leverage modern data science techniques
- Delivery: Online report portal, direct data files, or Strata’s Comparative Analytics
Broaden value with unique operational and financial insights
Market Insights provides key performance indicators across the most extensive range of service lines available in benchmarking solutions today. Metrics go beyond acute care to include outpatient, physician practices, imaging centers, home health and hospice, skilled nursing facilities, urgent care centers, and more.
Analytics and benchmarking data include key financial, operational, payroll, patient, and labor utilization measures from a strong cross-section of various types of hospitals, departments, practices, and specialties for comparison.
Data subscription options:
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Financial/Operational – Enhance budgets and financial forecasts and guide strategic operational improvements. Monthly data include margins, volumes, revenues, expenses, labor, productivity, and span of control across more than 40 types of acute and non-acute entities.
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Cost and Margins – Compare monthly cost and margin metrics to peer organizations by service line, SG2 procedures, and MSDRGs for payor groups and patient types in this exclusive data set. To build the data set, Strata aggregates costing data monthly from more than 450 hospitals that use StrataJazz Decision Support to calculate their total and indirect costs.
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Physician – Improve profitability and productivity with robust comparison data from 135,000 physicians across 10,000+ practice departments. Data include physician investments, compensation, revenue, productivity, and support staff benchmarks by specialty and region.
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Service Line and Procedure Volumes – Identify volume trends nationwide to drive performance improvement using the SG2 service line and procedure volume data from health systems and facilities. Details include monthly and daily volumes for Sg2 service line and procedure volume data for more than 115 health systems and over 600 facilities.
Identify improvement opportunities with near real-time precision
Data refreshes regularly to show metrics from the prior month, so you can quickly identify and guide your clients’ response to healthcare industry trends. The monthly updates give immediate visibility into action plan impacts, creating more time to course correct if needed.
Evaluate clients’ performance against industry benchmarks
Market Insights provides the market knowledge needed to help you quickly spot clients’ greatest operational, financial, and clinical performance improvement opportunities so you can focus corrective strategies on the areas most likely to show the greatest impact. Set goals for incremental improvement using better-performing peers as the target. With 20 peer percentile targets per measure, you can develop achievable improvement action plans.
Featured Resources
Speak Their Language: Bridging the Gap Between Financial and Operational Planning
November 11, 2019
Identifying The Language Barrier
As organizations work toward a more agile, accurate planning process, there remains a gap between the traditional budget of the past and a better approach, one that works to align finance leaders with clinical operations.
Top Healthcare CEO & CFO Strategies for 2022
We’re sharing some of the top strategies presented by CEOs and CFOs at the non-profit provider track at the Annual JP Morgan Health Care Conference
Healthcare is the biggest industry in our nation’s economy, with more than $4 trillion in annual spending. Therefore, understanding the financial health of healthcare is more important than ever. At the Annual JP Morgan Health Care Conference, leaders from 20 prominent health systems, representing nearly $250 billion in collective annual spend, shared their top strategies.
CFO Panel: The Road to Recovery
“The pandemic has been the black swan event of our lifetimes, yet hospitals have responded heroically,” said Dan Michelson, CEO of Strata.
Strata recently convened an industry roundtable of finance leaders to examine the current state of health system finances and what the future may hold as healthcare leaders continue to wrestle with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Rise of Smart Data
Smart data and advanced analytics will be the picks and shovels that we use to improve health system performance. But what do those words, “smart data” and “advanced analytics” mean in practice? We delved into these concepts and eight key themes emerged, which are fundamentally critical to developing smarter, more advanced analytics strategies.
Proactive Strategies for Cost Reduction in Healthcare
Our new white paper, Proactive Strategies for Cost Reduction in Healthcare: A CFO’s Guide, shares how health systems are moving beyond one-time cuts to disciplined, data-driven cost management.