This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin is joined by Sg2 Principal Brian Esser from our financial strategy practice and Associate Principal Joe Maher from our value transformation consulting practice to discuss Q2 earnings for those outside the traditional health system sphere, such as payers and new market entrants. Brian and Joe talk about the high-level trends, payer mix shifts and where disrupters are experiencing success. 
Read Joe Maher’s blog post: Five Observations From 2023 Second Quarter Earnings Calls: Legacy Payers and VBC Market Entrants.
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What We Learned From Payer Q2 Earnings

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Health & Fitness

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This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Tori Richie talks to two Vizient consulting leads, Michael Lutkus and Amit Sharma, about why community hospital optimization is important for health systems. Michael and Amit cover some of the barriers to optimization (eg, M&A, care shifts), along with some strategies health systems can pursue, including engaging in change management work.
 
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Community Hospital Optimization

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Recently, there’s been a lot of news around closures related to obstetrics services. So on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Jayme Zage, PhD, has a conversation with Sg2 OB experts Consultant Dionne Dela Cruz and Fellow Jeremy Miller, MD around the challenges and trends of obstetrics care. Dionne and Jeremy discuss options for organizations to maintain or close OB units and the impact of closures, as well as obstetrics care strategies for health systems.
 
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Trends in Obstetrics Care

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This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin is joined by Associate Principal Joe Maher from Vizient's value transformation and payer provider alignment team. Joe is our expert on the payer side of health care, so in this episode, he’ll cover payers (eg, new entrants and models, partnership opportunities for health systems) and health plans (eg, Medicare Advantage, care delivery capabilities), as well as implications for 2025.
 
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Where Payers Stand Today

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Sg2 continuously monitors the margins and financial resiliency of our members across the country, so on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Jayme Zage, PhD, talks to Sg2 Principal Brian Esser, Senior Consultant Sushma Narra and Director Ryota Terada about the latest iteration of Sg2’s Economic Index, which helps organizations anticipate where future financial headwinds and tailwinds may develop. Brian, Sushma and Ryota discuss the four domains of the Economic Index; how this tool can benefit not only providers but also life sciences companies; and their bold predictions for what will impact financial resiliency over the next couple years.
 
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Sg2 Economic Index 2.0

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This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’re excited to announce the first of our episodes we like to call “The Bill Woodson Show.” For these special editions, our host will be none other than Sg2 Senior Principal Bill Woodson, who will chat with Sg2 experts and health care industry thought leaders about top-of-mind topics in the health care space. For this episode, Bill is joined by John Becker, SVP, Sales, Service & Insights Delivery for the Data & Digital business unit at Vizient. John recently attended the Vizient Health Executive Forum (VHEF), and he shares messages and themes he heard, including workforce solutions, transformation, AI, systemness and much more.
For more insights from VHEF, check out this article: The view from VHEF: 4 challenges that are top of mind — and what you can do about them
 
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What We Learned From Payer Q2 Earnings

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