Hospital and health system executives ranked increasing ambulatory access as their top concern in the Washington, D.C.-based Advisory Board's Health Care CEO Survey.
The survey polled more than 180 C-suite executives between December 2016 and January 2017.
The survey asked executives their top concerns:
• Fifty-seven percent said improving ambulatory access
• Fifty-seven percent said implementing innovative approaches to expense reduction
• Fifty-five percent said increasing outpatient procedural market share
• Fifty-four percent said reducing unwarranted clinical variation
• Forty-nine percent said reining in avoidable utilization