Make financial planning a stronger operating decision
Financial planning breaks down when growth, spend, performance and operating change are treated as separate conversations. Vizient helps healthcare leaders connect those signals earlier so planning can guide action before pressure compounds.
Planning gets stronger when the signals connect
Leaders need a more connected view of what is changing and what to do next. Financial planning has to do more than reconcile numbers. It has to support enterprise judgment.
In practice
What stronger financial planning makes possible
Plan for uncertainty with confidence
Use scenario-based financial modeling to assess policy, reimbursement, and market shifts—so leaders can quantify risk, set guardrails, and make confident decisions in an uncertain environment.
Adapt faster with real-time financial insight
Replace static budgets with rolling forecasts and continuous performance tracking to respond quickly as margins shift, expenses rise, and financial conditions evolve.
Align strategy, operations and capital
Connect financial planning to enterprise strategy to ensure capital allocation, operating performance, and growth initiatives align—creating a clear path to sustainable margins and long-term stability.
Organizations must pursue transformation that aligns operational improvement with service line and care delivery changes, adapts financial and capital planning to evolving business models, and identifies growth beyond today’s services and markets.
Strategic planning protects margins under pressure
Leading systems find millions in savings and strengthen supply control while margin pressure mounts, making proactive financial planning essential to sustainability.
Control over supplies
Memorial Herman Health System achieved 99.8% control over supplies
System-wide savings
University of California Health found $6 million in system-wide cost savings
Margin erosion
1.1 percentage point margin erosion is projected from upcoming Medicaid policy changes over the next five years
PRODUCTS
The capabilities behind the work
Integrated strategic financial planning
Connect long-range strategy with financial and operational plans to evaluate scenarios, prioritize investments, and guide more confident decisions.
Strategic partnerships
Assess financial performance and synergies to guide smarter partnership decisions and strengthen long-term value.
Analytics and AI
Apply AI-driven insights to support financial planning, test assumptions and align decisions to performance and future conditions.
Vizient Networks
Combine intelligence, expert guidance, and peer collaboration to improve outcomes and accelerate progress. Vizient Networks helps leaders turn insight into sustained performance improvement.
ENTERPRISE FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE
See financial pressure in enterprise context
Planning gets better when leaders can connect spend, inflation, quality, supply, and growth signals instead of looking at each one in isolation.
EVIDENCE-BASED PLANNING
Use proof that supports better decisions
Bring industry outlook, spend-management reporting, and client results into the planning process so strategy is grounded in current evidence, not generalized assumptions.
CONTINUOUS DECISION SUPPORT
Turn planning into a practical management tool
The point is not to produce another static report. It is to help finance and operational leaders decide what to focus on first, which tradeoffs matter most, and how to move earlier.
ASSESS YOUR ORGANIZATION
See your organization's performance in perspective
See how you compare and where to focus next.