Sg2 Perspectives

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.

What Health Care Boards and C-suite Teams Are Talking About in Fall 2022

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 functional groups (CFOs, CNOs, COOs) are focused on.

 

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 Value in the Payer-Provider Landscape

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 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.

Navigating Site of Care Shifts for Continued Revenue and Growth

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 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 to Build a Sustainable Care at Home Program

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 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.

Sg2 Strategy Exchange Debrief: Executing on Strategic Priorities and Plans

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 they are approaching strategic plan implementation.

 

Be sure to revisit Sg2 Perspectives episodes 111 and 120 to learn more about the Sg2 Strategy Exchange.

 

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.

Integrating Health Care Finance and Strategy Teams to Achieve Organizational Goals

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 strategy teams.

 

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.

Grill Bill: Differences in Strategic Focus Across the C-Suite

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 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.

Provider-Supplier Collaboration to Address the Whole Health Care Experience

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 and Lisa discuss provider-supplier partnerships, the value proposition and growth potential of new technologies, and the role of the patient/consumer.

 

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.

Solving Consumer Challenges as a Strategic Growth Imperative

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 horizon.

 

Sg2 members can access the Sg2 Executive Briefing Bolstering Consumer Influence for Near- and Long-term Growth 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.