For nonprofit hospitals, pricey management consultants haven’t yielded better performances: study

Fierce Healthcare – Tuesday, May 5, 2026
By Dave Muoio

Nonprofit hospitals may have gotten a raw deal on the millions to billions of dollars they spent on management consulting services, a new peer-reviewed analysis suggests.

The study, published Monday in JAMA, found that, compared with matched hospitals that did not tap outside guidance, those that hired consultants between 2010 and 2022 showed “no evidence of meaningful changes” on average across various measures of their finances, operations, or quality-of-care outcomes.

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