The Keckley Report

The following is an excerpt from Navigant Healthcare’s Pulse Weekly. Click here for a complete copy of this week’s article.  The popular CBS reality TV hit “Survivor” is a global…

  Monday, in its 5:4 ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the Supreme Court affirmed that for-profit employers may opt out of certain methods of contraception it finds objectionable on…

June 30: Breaking News: This morning, the US Supreme Court sided with Hobby Lobby in its challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that certain methods of contraception be covered…

Today or tomorrow, we’re likely to hear the Supreme Court’s decisions about a challenge brought by two employers against the Affordable Care Act: In Hobby Lobby vs. Sebelius, the Green…

Conspicuous on the front page of last Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal was this headline:  “Taxpayers Foot Big Bills from Handful of Doctors.” It is a two-page story about a clinician…

Last Thursday morning, Mary Barra, the veteran General Motors employee who became General Motors CEO last January, stood before her employees to report findings of the 315 page report by…

  All publicly traded companies compensate their board members and invest heavily to assure shareholders and the public the board is properly composed, independent of conflicts of interest and knowledgeable…

May 27, 2014 Last Wednesday, President Obama called the much-publicized problems in the Veterans Affairs health system “disgraceful” as delays in care in at least 26 facilities grabbed media attention….

May 19, 2014 Public trust matters. It’s hard to build and easy to lose. Of late, subpar performance has drawn public attention to a wide variety of industry notables— General…

May 12, 2014 A study by Stanford researchers in the current issue of Health Affairs is likely to intensify growing tension between health insurers and hospitals. At issue: the impact…