Becker's Healthcare May 24, 2018
1. The insurer-hospital relationship has eroded dramatically over the last five years as insurers increasingly compete with health systems.
2. Telehealth may be the canary in the coal mine as to the bricks and mortar hospital and health system.
3. Urgent care is the great awakening of “care when you want it and where you want it.”
4. Hospitals and health systems and ASCs may be in a long-term period of stabilization and, in some places, slow erosion.
5. For hospitals, health systems and ASCs, think revenue and income neutral.
6. Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente’s model is the easiest means to really embrace lower costs of care, because it takes on full insurance risk. I.e., it can fully deploy remote...