The Keckley Report

The relationship between hospitals and insurers is blurring. Consider: More than 100 hospitals/health systems sponsor health insurance plans: in two of three, they are joint ventures with insurance companies like…

The national discussion about the future of healthcare is predictably mired in the rhetoric of the race for the White House pitting 22 Democrats promising universal access vs. the incumbent…

Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor released its April jobs report, citing a seasonally adjusted gain of 263,000 jobs. It marks the 103rd successive month of gains and resulted in…

Last week, CMS unveiled its new Primary Cares Initiative (PCI) program that aims to enlist participation by a fourth of providers and engage many of the 44 million Medicare beneficiaries…

Private equity investment in U.S. healthcare plays a formidable role today and, in all likelihood, even more tomorrow. In most cases, these investors are successful in exploiting weaknesses and opportunities…

The most recent addition to the lexicon of health services research is ‘social determinants of health’. Arguably, it joins value-based purchasing and evidence-based medicine as the most transformative themes in…

As the week ended, the eyes of the healthcare industry were focused on the fate of the Affordable Care Act. A series of three legal challenges set the stage for…

In healthcare delivery circles, no topic sparks more head scratching and second guessing than health information technology (HIT). Among managers in these settings, opinions range from many who think it…

This Saturday, March 23, marks the 9th anniversary of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) by the 111th Congress. Accompanied by the Health Care…