Sg2 Perspectives

The Year Ahead 2023

Sg2 kicks off every year with our popular The Year Ahead webinar, where we focus on key themes in the health care space for the year to come. So this week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’ve invited our webinar presenters, Sg2 Principals Brian Esser, Brianna Motley and Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, and Senior Principal Bill Woodson, to recap the webinar and talk about how hospitals and health systems will need to take a multipronged approach to balancing growth, workforce and capacity in 2023, as well as how leading health systems are managing this balancing act.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

How Suppliers and Emerging Tech Adapted in 2022

On this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, we’ve invited Sg2 Principal Jeff Moser and Senior Principal Bill Woodson and VP Crystal Mullis and AVP Corey Pegg to discuss some of 2022’s key health care challenges through a different lens: suppliers and emerging technology. Jeff,  Bill, Crystal and Corey dig into issues with workforce, inpatient capacity, site-of-care shifts and virtual care, and share how suppliers and emerging tech are not only responding to these challenges, but also how they are working with health systems to address them.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

A First Look at Key Health Care Trends That Will Impact Sg2 Forecasting

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 they may impact our demand forecasts moving forward. Maddie and Tori discuss forecasting for virtual visits and conditions impacted by social determinants of health; new therapeutic and surgical shift trends; and much more.

 

Learn more about Sg2 National and Market Demand Forecasts here.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Managing Missions: Leveraging Analytics to Maintain the Delicate Balance of AMCs

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 academic health systems and care continuums.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

MSSP: Bringing Accountable Care to All Medicare Beneficiaries

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 of health equity) and how provider organizations—whether they are part of MSSP or not—should move forward.

 

Learn more about MSSP and how Sg2 can help with your organization’s value-based care strategy in Sg2’s blog post and educational web series.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

AMC Summit 2022: Key Themes for Academic Medical Centers for 2023

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 Summit that tie into these key themes.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Playing Favorites With the Sg2 Perspectives Podcast Hosts

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 as care delivery innovation, operational constraints on growth, service distribution and capacity planning, and industry disrupters.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Direct to Employer Strategy: Tell a Good Value and Quality Story

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 generation of partnerships will look like.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

The Importance of Forecasting Insurance Coverage for the Changing Health Care Landscape

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 Insurance Coverage Estimates—and some of our other patients and community analytics tools—here.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Focusing on the Senior Population to Strategically Reshape Primary Care

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 on senior primary care aligns with other current health system initiatives.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.