Financing the future

Each report in the Financing the Future series focuses on the current and future demand for capital, the future supply of capital, on future strategies for providers and on implication for policy-all designed to help the healthcare industry seize the opportunity to finance the future.

Financing the Future I - Report 1
Financing the Future III - Report 1

"Healthcare Payment: Goals, Trends, and Strategies" advocates a payment system that rewards efficiency, quality and consumer involvement, but emphasizes such a system will require compromise and collaboration among all the stakeholders.
Financing the Future III - Report 2
Financing the Future III -- Report 2

According to Today's Technology Spending Trends: Strategies for the Healthcare Executive, higher-rated hospitals with more resources dedicated to quality-focused initiatives may achieve growth in volumes and market share, improved payer arrangements, and cost reductions; hospitals that cannot differentiate themselves in fragmented markets may fall further behind.
Financing the Future III - Report 3
Financing the Future III -- Report 3

The report, Managing Unfunded Liabilities: Will Your Hospital Be Prepared discusses how capital improvements and other upgrades may suffer at hospitals across the country unless administrators find a way to cope with the medical malpractice insurance obligations and pension plans that are competing for these dollars. Planning to pay for unfunded obligations is just the tip of an operational iceberg known as unfunded liabilities that hospital CFOs need to successfully navigate.