The rising cost of care threatens not just financial performance, but also the health outcomes organizations are working to improve. For both payers and providers, delivering value-based care while managing shrinking margins has never been more difficult or more critical.
Its clear healthcare organizations can’t cut their way to sustainability. Strategic reinvestment is the only viable path forward—prioritizing not just cost savings but health impact. That means surfacing and addressing the downplayed costs that undermine outcomes, drain resources, and stall performance.
At Carenet Health, we believe transformation starts by understanding the full cost of care—not just the clinical spend, but the operational and experiential burdens that accumulate throughout the system.
High costs are everywhere.
When the conversation turns to costs in healthcare, most leaders think of the obvious numbers: rising premiums, labor shortages, claims spend, and overhead. But increasingly, we’re seeing deeper costs that often go unmeasured and unaddressed.
They show up in different ways across different organizations:
- An over-reliance on high-cost clinical labor for non-clinical work
- Technology investments that don’t improve workflows—or outcomes
- Patient (and corresponding revenue) leakage caused by poor access, scheduling friction, or limited guidance
- Staff burnout and turnover, leading to high recruitment and training costs, as well as diminished service quality
- Outreach programs that don’t reach—or move—the right patients to the appropriate site of care
None of these show up directly in a cost-of-care spreadsheet. But all of them add up—and all of them erode performance.
What can be done?
For years, efficiency has come from process redesign, tech integration, and workforce enablement. But what’s needed now, even more than efficiency, is impact.
The question isn’t just how to streamline. It’s how to spark real, measurable change.
That’s where insight-led orchestration comes in – looking at data, understanding consumer behavior, and leveraging learnings from hundreds of healthcare organizations over 25 years, to find the smartest windows of opportunity.
Carenet takes a comprehensive view of cost control, helping healthcare organizations focus their investments where they matter most. That means surfacing operational blind spots, identifying opportunities for automation, and realigning resources—clinical and non-clinical—to drive performance.
Our Intelligent Engagement™ platform integrates people, technology, data, and processes in ways that reduce administrative friction, improve scheduling, strengthen adherence, and lower the cost of care for everyone involved. The result is a better experience for patients, a better use of staff time, and a better bottom line.
Real change requires real partnerships.
Every healthcare organization is different, but all are facing rising costs. And in too many cases, those costs are hidden in plain sight.
The future of healthcare won’t be built on savings alone. It will be revolutionized with focus, performance, and bold reinvestment the purpose that brought us all into the business of healthcare in the first place: health.
What change can we help you power?
Read more from our Powering Change initiative HERE or to connect with a Carenet expert about where to start in your organization – Click Here.
