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Achieving Health: Our Healthcare Market Point of View

January 07, 2025
See our perspective on the core capabilities for organizations to Achieve Health for those they serve.

The U.S. healthcare system and its key stakeholders need to shift their orientation to focus on Achieving Health. For healthcare organizations, this means developing strategic agility, operational efficiency, clinical quality, and healthy margins, allowing them to grow, thrive, and support a vibrant, person-centered health delivery system in every community.

Based on decades of experience supporting healthcare providers and payors in their missions and goals, our point of view explores challenges of the current healthcare system, collaborative efforts required from stakeholders across the industry to Achieve Health, and core capabilities healthcare organizations need to navigate the dynamic healthcare environment.

Five Core Capabilities to Achieve Health

Today’s healthcare organizations must continually focus on five key areas to Achieve Health internally and for the individuals and communities they serve.

Aligned Growth

Pursuing strategic investments, integration activity, and partnerships across the healthcare value chain.

Only 43% of provider executives believe their organization will achieve growth targets over the next two years through inorganic growth.

Only 43% of provider executives believe their organization will achieve growth targets over the next two years through inorganic growth.1

Financial Discipline

Generating the margins necessary to thrive by securing and maintaining market relevance.

58% of provider executives expect their organization’s financial performance to improve slightly or significantly over the next two years.

58% of provider executives expect their organization’s financial performance to improve slightly or significantly over the next two years.1

Regulatory Excellence

Understanding the rapidly evolving regulatory environment and acting strategically within it.

Only 1 in 3 health plan executives are nearly or fully prepared for upcoming regulatory requirements

Only 1 in 3 health plan executives are nearly or fully prepared for upcoming regulatory requirements.2

Strategic Agility

Calibrating strategic direction as conditions demand and opportunities present.

35% of provider executives reported achieving less than half of their strategic plans’ stated objectives.

35% of provider executives reported achieving less than half of their strategic plans’ stated objectives.1

Talent Optimization

Building exceptional teams and equipping them to succeed in executing mission-aligned business and care delivery models.

44% of health plan executives report that retaining a skilled workforce is a top challenge facing their organization.

44% of health plan executives report that retaining a skilled workforce is a top challenge facing their organization.2

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