Sean Cassidy Featured in Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH)
We’re proud to share that our CEO, Sean Cassidy, was featured in Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH), unpacking what the newly signed federal spending package signals for hospitals and health systems. The takeaway is unambiguous: leadership teams have a sharply compressed window to recalibrate strategy and day-to-day operations, particularly around cost containment, Medicaid exposure, and service-line durability.
Why this matters now
Decision cycles are accelerating. Policy adjustments will cascade through state budgets, payer mix, and uncompensated care faster than usual. Re-forecasting needs to happen within the next planning cycles, not years down the road.
Medicaid and state-directed funding face strain. Expect pressure on financing mechanisms and provider-tax parameters that could squeeze safety-net and rural facilities. Health systems should scenario-plan for enrollment shifts and revenue compression.
Protecting margin requires disciplined data use. Organizations that pinpoint avoidable utilization, surface early-detection opportunities, and direct outreach to rising-risk cohorts will be best positioned to safeguard access and maintain margin.
Our take
Before many Americans potentially lose healthcare coverage in 2027, health systems should be looking to prioritize the following areas:
- Refresh Medicaid and payer-mix models to reflect likely policy and enrollment pivots.
- Tune service-line economics and site-of-care footprints for resilience.
- Proactively identify patients with potentially undiagnosed disease using existing EHR signals to enable earlier interventions.
- Tighten internal communications so clinical, financial, and operational teams move in lockstep as states implement changes.
