Preparing For The 2019 Disruptions

Our team spends a lot of time thinking about strategy, competitive advantage, and sustainability—and the likely disruptors that will upend strategy. As we look ahead, I think there are three big disruptive forces that executive teams of specialty provider organizations should pay attention to—the implications of continued “integration”, the changing political and regulatory landscape, and a new wave of disruptive partnership.

A continued push for "integration"—It was really the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that started the “integration movement” in motion. No preexisting condition exclusions permitted with no annual/lifetime limits. The first accountable care . . .