A weekly newsletter on the “business” of running a healthcare business
Why “The Management Round”
Every morning, a doctor rounds on their patients — a quick, structured check on how each one is actually doing, before anything becomes an emergency.
The Management Round is that check-in, once a week, for the “business” side of the healthcare business — the part of the job that clinical training never covered, and that usually only gets attention once something’s already gone wrong.
Who this is for
Owners and operators of independent private hospitals in India — people who trained as clinicians, not managers, and are now running a business in addition to taking care of patients. And more broadly, any administrator of a healthcare entity.
What it covers
- Growth Strategy — New service lines, referrals, empanelment, pricing, expansion: how a hospital actually grows, on purpose rather than by accident.
- Operational Excellence — Patient experience, staffing, quality and accreditation, process — the daily-operations work that decides whether growth is even sustainable.
- Profitability — Revenue cycle, cost, capital structure — the numbers side of running a hospital as a business, not just a practice.
Who’s behind this
The Management Round is written by Aviral Prakash. Before healthcare, he spent 15 years building operating systems, growth engines, and go-to-market strategy across sectors. An alumnus of SRCC and IIM Ahmedabad, he now works as a growth partner to Indian hospitals and healthtech organisations — one client at a time, on the business side of running them better.
This newsletter is a running record of what that work actually surfaces — written for the operators who don’t have time to track it themselves.