The Keckley Report

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…

Last Thursday, HHS released the final enrollment stats for health exchange enrollment for 2014:  here’s what we learned: 8.1 million enrolled in a plan in the Health Insurance Marketplace—3.8 million…

The healthcare industry’s dependence on capital for technology and growth was on full display this week, particularly in the biopharma and medical device sectors where major deals were the focus….

  The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), sometimes called the Stimulus Act, was an $831 billion economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th Congress in February 2009 and signed…

  In 1994, I wrote 99 Questions You Should Ask Your Doctor and Why having observed my dad’s journey through a two week medical ordeal involving heart bypass surgery. I…