The Keckley Report

The biggest risk facing most healthcare organizations is not their financial sustainability nor uncertainty about the competitive environment: it’s inadequate attention to their ethical risks. It’s a costly oversight. Left…

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data showing life expectancy in the U.S. declined in 2017 for the third consecutive year. The good news was improvement…

Reducing healthcare costs is widely accepted as a system imperative: the facts are compelling: National health spending is projected to grow at an average rate of 5.5% per year for…

Two major national meetings last week showcase the current landscape in U.S. healthcare: the Annual Membership Meeting of the American Hospital Association in Washington and the Inaugural HLTH: The Future…

For 16 years, nursing has occupied the highest position on Gallup’s annual survey of the public’s trust in occupations—above pharmacists, doctors, lawyers, bankers and the rest. This week, on the…

Last Tuesday, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule that requires hospitals to post their standard charges “via the Internet in a machine-readable format and…

In Catholicism, purgatory is the intermediate state after physical death in which sinners destined for heaven must first atone for their sins before entering. It’s a holding place. It’s temporary….

Tomorrow, a time-honored tradition in our country continues: it’s the deadline for paying 2017 income taxes. By tomorrow night, more than 145 million American households will file their federal taxes…

Saturday was World Health Day. It’s been celebrated every year on April 7 since 1948, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO). Its purpose is to call attention…

The fifth in the series “The 10 Biggest Myths about the U.S. Health System.” For previous reports, go to www.paulkeckley.com Medicare is a big deal in U.S. healthcare: no doubt….