The Keckley Report

Last week, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced higher penalties for avoidable readmissions to hospitals. The week prior, it announced it was doubling down on the mandated…

Last Wednesday, despite calls for delay from leading hospital trade groups and majorities in both Houses of Congress, CMS released its Five Star Ratings for 4589 hospitals. The new rating…

73 speeches and a week later, it’s time for the second act of the American political theatrical, the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this week. Last week, little was said…

By Thursday of this week, at least 60 political stars and wannabees in the GOP will have had their day in the spotlight in Cleveland. Next week, the same will…

In the U.S. system of health, physicians are trained to be the patient’s advocate, voiding outside influences and financial considerations in assessing and treating their medical needs. That’s the basis…

Since 2009, I have carried a copy of the Declaration and our Constitution along with my passport tucked in my briefcase. As the Affordable Care Act was debated, I found…

At the beginning of last week, media coverage focused on the Orlando massacre of 49 in the Pulse nightclub shooting. By the end, it had shifted to Thursday’s surprise Brexit…

Like so much in life, the concept of precision medicine is simple enough: to make sure the treatments and therapies used with patients match their unique genetic wiring based on…

I’m not an antitrust attorney, just a mere mortal trying to decipher how to balance the pressures of the market for hospitals and the threats from states and the feds…

The origin of hospitals dates back 2500 years to the facilities built by the ancient Greeks to serve their God of health, Asclepius, and to the third century B.C. Roman…