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Recon takes an analytical look behind select developments in healthcare

Comparing the emerging national networks of Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic

Tory Wolff April 10, 2015

The build-out of the Cleveland Clinic and Mayo branded networks continues apace. Most recently, the Virginia Hospital Center joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network in March and Sequoia Hospital (Dignity), Piedmont Healthcare and Valley Health System (NJ) signed up with Cleveland Clinic this past March and early April. Growth of the networks and current snapshot These four deals cap torrid growth in the networks especially in 2013 and 2014. As of the end of the first quarter of 2015, Mayo has affiliations with systems totaling 13.4K beds (and a rough

Cleveland Clinic’s bold land grab in care improvement: the Community Health Systems deal

Tory Wolff March 21, 2013

Summary The deal locks in an option for Cleveland Clinic to grow its clinical practice transfer business 4x its current size and much larger than Cleveland Clinic’s peers There will be significant challenges to executing given the wide geographic dispersion, Community Health Systems’s mostly unranked facilities and strategy of using the hospital “channel” to drive change in care practice In the long run, the deal will reinforce Cleveland Clinic’s advantage in Big Data (it will take time to realize this) Community Health Systems faces little competition in many markets, potentially

Heartland Health: Marching towards Kansas City with Mayo on its shoulder

Tory Wolff May 31, 2012

Earlier this month, Heartland Health signed a deal with the Mayo Clinic for its doctors to virtually consult cases with Mayo physicians in return for an undisclosed fee. Heartland Health is a regional medical system in northwest Missouri and includes a ~350 bed acute care hospital (Heartland Regional Medical Center) with 200+ medical staff physicians, and the Heartland Clinic with 100 providers in 23 locations. Heartland is now the fifth hospital system to join the Mayo Clinic Care Network (MCCN), a structure launched by Mayo in September 2011. The deal substantially

Franchising specialties: model for breaking down geographic barriers to competition?

Tory Wolff April 17, 2012

Summary Geographic barriers to provider competition are a headache for payers By importing capabilities, specialty franchising could help reduce some of the barriers to cross-geography competition It is too early to tell whether the recent Sarasota-Columbia is a good example of what franchising could do given the rapid growth in capacity for high-end cardiology in the area; it may be more about preserving network status and price point But payers should not assume the model will be a disappointing supplement to provider leverage: Instead, consider encouraging providers with differentiated outcomes

Tag: affiliation

Recon takes an analytical look behind select developments in healthcare

Comparing the emerging national networks of Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic

Cleveland Clinic’s bold land grab in care improvement: the Community Health Systems deal

Heartland Health: Marching towards Kansas City with Mayo on its shoulder

Franchising specialties: model for breaking down geographic barriers to competition?

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