The Healthcare Cost-Cutting Era Is Over. Now What?
Healthcare organizations are facing mounting financial pressures, but traditional cost-cutting strategies can only go so far. As health systems grow more complex, lasting financial resilience requires a different approach to managing spending, strengthening governance, and improving operational efficiency.
In this episode of SAP Concur Conversations, host Jeanne Dion is joined by Chad Rodine and Gilda Ezad-Panahi from Huron Consulting Group to explore how healthcare leaders can move beyond short-term savings toward lasting cost transformation. Together, they discuss why organizational growth doesn't automatically translate into greater efficiency, how stronger spend visibility and standardized processes can improve financial control, and where flexibility remains essential to supporting patient care.
The conversation also explores the growing role of AI in healthcare finance, from automating expense audits to reducing administrative burden. With practical perspectives on data quality, change management, and technology adoption, Chad and Gilda share where healthcare finance leaders can start making meaningful improvements and why lasting transformation takes more than another round of cuts.
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