Gist Healthcare Podcast

From planning to cost restructuring: What site-neutral payment demands

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By J Carlisle Larsen
11 min readMar 9, 2026
Strategy partnerships and innovation

Gist Podcast

As reimbursement levels shift under site-neutral payment, health systems must move from strategy to execution.

On today's episode of the Gist Healthcare Podcast, we hear the second part of host J. Carlisle Larsen’s conversation Kaufman Hall Managing Director Joyjit Choudhury about what cost restructuring looks like in practice. That includes rethinking business and operating models, integrating site-neutral planning into broader enterprise strategy and aligning finance, operations and clinical leadership around a sustainable path forward.

Be sure to check out Joyjit's recent blog about this topic.

You can find the first part of our conversation here.

Author

J Carlisle Larsen

J. Carlisle Larsen

Vice President, Senior Producer

J. Carlisle Larsen, JC, is Vice President, Senior Producer for Kaufman Hall. Her responsibilities include breaking down healthcare business and policy news. Prior to joining Kaufman Hall, JC spent 10 years working in the Midwest WDET-FM (Detroit’s NPR Station) and Wisconsin Public Radio covering a wider range of topics, from social issues to healthcare politics. Her work has appeared on...