The Keckley Report

Alternative payment models (APMs) have been the mechanisms whereby Medicare officials have tested ways to reduce unnecessary spending without compromising quality and safety for patients. They’re deemed ‘alternative’ by CMS…

Last Wednesday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) advised members of the Senate Finance and Judiciary Committees to take a fresh look at tax laws governing non-profit hospitals. Prompted…

The healthcare agenda for the Biden administration will be set by six events in the next 51 days before the inauguration January 20: 1. DECEMBER 11 GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN The federal…

Last week, Moderna joined Pfizer in announcing promising results of their messenger RNA vaccines and their intent to file for emergency use authorization with the FDA within days. A third…

There are 6146 hospitals in the United States of which 5198 are classified as community hospitals. They employ 7.8 million including 35% of the nation’s physicians. A fourth are owned…

The Blue Wave didn’t happen. The outcome of Campaign 2020 is a nation deeply divided along racial, economic, and partisan lines. The healthcare industry and the policies that frame its…

Tomorrow ends the formal election cycle though votes in several states will be counted until November 12. But regardless of the election outcome, the coronavirus and its handling by public…

  Regardless of who wins the White House, healthcare policy will be prominent in the next administration. The industry is America’s biggest employer (17.5 million), its biggest and fastest growing…

As the week ended, the GOP-majority Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled its vote this Thursday to advance the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the full Senate for…

There’s growing evidence that the U.S. economic recovery will be a K recovery: a bi-directional response to the pandemic that will produce winners and losers. And the implication is profound…