Address and Reduce Inappropriate Clinical Variation

Many organizations have an opportunity to address a difficult-but-essential element of cost transformation: reducing inappropriate clinical variation.

Hospital and health system executives recognize the imperative to transform their organization’s costs as they transition to value-based payment models, strive to remain competitive, and seek to generate capital to fund strategic growth initiatives. Many organizations have an opportunity to address a difficult-but-essential element of cost transformation: reducing inappropriate clinical variation.

Patrick Smyth

Patrick-Smyth
Senior Vice President

With more than 25 years of healthcare experience, Patrick Smyth is a trusted strategic advisor to healthcare leaders nationwide. His areas of expertise include integrated strategic and financial planning, organizational strategy, strategic options, mergers and acquisitions, physician strategy, clinical portfolio assessment, and program development.

Prior to Kaufman Hall, Patrick was Executive Director of Strategic Planning at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, responsible for developing regional and program-wide strategic and financial analyses and plans. He previously was Senior Manager and Director of Strategic Financial Services at Kurt Salmon Associates.

Patrick has contributed articles on financial planning and capital investment analysis to various industry journals. He holds an M.B.A., with a concentration in Finance, from San Francisco State University. Patrick is a Chartered Financial Analyst, as designated by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts.

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