Edge Perspectives

At Sg2, we’ve entered into forecasting season, which is an intense time of year for our forecasting teams as they quantify the key trends that end up in our national and market demand forecasts. So on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Senior Principal Madeleine McDowell, MD, FAAP, and Director Tori Richie—who lead our forecasting efforts—join us to provide a sneak peek at 2023 key themes and how t...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’re joined by Sg2’s Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, and National Vice President, Intelligence, Michael Humphrey, to talk about the challenges academic medical centers (AMCs) face in managing their business. Justin and Mike dig into how they leverage Sg2 and Vizient analytics to help AMCs strategically approach the management of patient volumes across their aca...

The US’s largest value-based payment model, the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), recently underwent changes designed to retain those organizations already involved and to encourage participation from new organizations. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Associate Principal Keely Macmillan joins us to talk about these changes (eg, a more gradual glide path to downside risk, the advancement o...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we turn our focus to Sg2’s recent 2022 AMC Summit, an event specifically for our academic medical center (AMC) members. Sg2’s Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, and National Vice President, Intelligence, Michael Humphrey join us to talk about four key themes that are important for AMCs moving into 2023, as well as share some inspiring AMC peer stories from the AMC...

We have a special treat for our listeners in this Sg2 Perspectives episode! Our podcast hosts, Sg2’s Senior Director Trevor DaRin, Director Tori Richie and Principal Jayme Zage, PhD, take a look back at our episodes from 2022 thus far and share their favorite quotes from our podcast guests. Unsurprisingly, their favorites also coincide with some of the biggest topics we’ve covered this year, such...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Senior Employer Outreach & Development Director MJ Burg and Senior Direct-to-Employer Network Development Director Benjamin Gazaway join us to talk about the what and how of direct-to-employer strategy. MJ and Benjamin share perspectives from both the employer and health system sides, covering various aspects of the direct-to-employer landscape and what the next...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, podcast hosts Trevor DaRin and Tori Richie are joined by Sg2 Principal Brian Esser to have a conversation around Sg2’s Insurance Coverage Estimates product. Trevor, Tori and Brian talk about the trends they’re tracking, including Medicaid enrollment, the growth of Medicare Advantage and the push/pull on the commercial insurance side.   Learn more about Sg2’s Insuranc...

Strategic approaches for primary care are more tailored and precise than ever, so this week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Tori Richie is joined by Sg2 Senior Director Trevor DaRin and Director Stephanie Snider as they dig into targeting the senior population to help redesign primary care. Tori, Trevor and Stephanie discuss primary care disrupters, integration with specialty services and how focusing o...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin joins Sg2 Principals Brian Esser and Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, in discussing what Sg2 is hearing from our member leadership teams and boards on the largest issues they’re facing today. Trevor, Brian and Jennifer share the big themes (eg, finance, workforce, site of care shifts, disrupters) and surprising questions, as well as what specific functiona...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we invited Sg2 Content Director Rich Daly, Principal Brian Esser and Senior Consultant Sushma Narra to break down the research they’ve been doing around current trends in the health care payer landscape. Brian and Sushma discuss payer behavior, bringing strategy to the managed care contracting table, creative partnership options and more.     We are always excited to...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we focus on the hot topic of site-of-care shifts with Sg2 Consultant Nikita Arora and Director Tony Guth. Nikita and Tony discuss key drivers of these shifts, the biggest disupter in this space and how hospitals should be preparing for procedure movement, as well as provide specific examples of procedures shifting to ASCs or office clinics.   We are always excited to...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Jayme Zage, PhD, and Sg2 Associate Principal Joe Maher and Principal Brianna Motley talk through the various levers organizations can pull to build sustainable care at home programs. Jayme, Joe and Brianna discuss payment, revenue and value-based care in the care at home landscape, as well as finding—and vetting—the right partners.   We are always excited to get...

In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Senior Director and podcast host Trevor DaRin is joined by Senior Director Janelle Kwan, MBA, and Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, as they share some of the key discussion topics and takeaways from Sg2’s final Strategy Exchange session. Trevor, Janelle and Jennifer talk about how health care organizations are communicating new strategic plans, as well as how...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Principal and financial strategy practice lead Brian Esser and Kaufman Hall SVP Lisa Goldstein join us to talk about health care finance and the importance of connecting finance and strategy teams. Brian and Lisa discuss where we are in the economic cycle, the key pressures and challenges health systems are facing and improving communication between finance and s...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we welcome back Sg2 Senior Principal Bill Woodson to talk about what’s top of mind for health care boards and leadership teams in terms of strategic planning. Bill discusses progress with workforce approaches and tensions between payers and providers, as well as M&A activity and private equity investments in health care.   We are always excited to get ideas and feedb...

In Sg2 Perspectives episode 125 , we focused on how the role of supply chain is changing and how the biggest trends impacting demand will have corresponding impacts on supplies and spend. In this week’s episode, Vizient Associate Principal Doug Beinborn, Sg2 Principal Chad Giese and Sg2 Associate Principal Lisa McGuire dig deep into those trends, specifically at the service line level. Doug, Chad...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’ve invited Sg2’s Associate Principal Charlotte Brown-Zalewa and Principal Mark Larson to help us make sense of how health systems can connect consumerism and near- and long-term growth in their strategic planning. Charlotte and Mark dive into addressing gaps in care access, consumer retention and digital health strategies, along with key consumer trends on the hor...

In July, digestive health was the most searched topic on Sg2’s Intelligence website, so this week, we are discussing both the clinical and strategic side of digestive health and what it means for health care organizations. Sg2 Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, Associate Principal Matt Fadel and Consultant Adilene Gaviña join us to not only talk about improving access and driving volumes in the...

This week, Sg2 Perspectives invited Sg2 Principal Karyl Kopaskie, PhD, and Consulting Director Stephanie Snider to join us to talk about the urgency of addressing health equity, which has increasingly become a strategic priority for many health systems. Karyl and Stephanie discuss defining social return on investment, embedding health equity in operational strategic planning and how organizations...

Earlier this summer, CFOs and CSOs from Sg2 and Vizient member organizations came together to discuss how to rediscover growth and future-proof their care continuums. In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Principal Brian Esser, National Vice President, AMCs, Michael Humphrey and Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, recap what was top of mind at this joint network meeting, including alternative reven...

The health care industry has seen a lot of change over the past few years, which means the dynamics of strategic planning and financial success have also changed. This week, Sg2 Perspectives is joined by Sg2’s National Vice President Jim Jacobsohn and Associate Principal Charlotte Brown-Zalewa who discuss patient reactivation, nontraditional partnerships, strategic deselection and how leadership f...

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation has launched the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM) to enhance the quality of care provided to cancer patients covered under Medicare Traditional while reducing Medicare fee-for-service expenditures, with nonbinding applications for the new program due by September 30, 2022. In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, we’re joined by Sg2 Associate Principal Keely Mac...

There is a “changing of the guard” happening across the health care industry right now as many hospital and health system CEOs are retiring, making way for a new generation of health care leaders to take over. Thus, on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, we chatted with Dr John Brumstead, President/CEO of University of Vermont Health Network (UVM), who is retiring in September of this year. Dr Brumsted...

With the release of our Sg2 Impact of Change® Forecast in May, our service line landscape webinars in full swing and our market-specific forecasts coming soon, Sg2 Perspectives invited Sg2’s Director Josh Aaker, PhD, Associate Principal Cory Jones and Senior Director Katherine Zentner to dive into what’s being forecasted for the cancer, cardiovascular, neurosciences, orthopedics and spine service...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we invited Sg2 Director and digital health expert Andrew Rebhan to expand on a briefing on digital health organizational structures we released earlier this year. Andrew digs into the different stages of digital health maturity—early, evolving and advanced—and the key components and considerations of each, as well as what success looks like in terms of scalability an...