Michael Doring Connelly

Both renal dialysis and primary care provide critical services, but the magnitude of their benefits is vastly different. Dialysis serves...

Dr. Pearl’s recent post  predicting a “massive healthcare crisis” is right on point. He offers compelling evidence of the crisis’s...

A response to Anna Eisenberg’s “Deep Dive” Eisenberg’s six-part Deep Dive  into the U.S. healthcare system is a well-researched and...

The recent New England Journal of Medicine article, “ Defining Health Care Corporatization ,” provides a valuable historical overview of...

This opinion piece , titled Medicaid Is Overdue for a Big Beautiful Overhaul, calls for a significant reform of Medicaid and argues that...

Three decades ago, there were no healthcare companies in the top 25 of the Fortune 500. Today eight of the top 25 are healthcare...

Felice J. Freyer’s May 8 article in the Boston Globe  calls out that Americans’ trust in medicine is declining but that doctors can still...

The Commonwealth Fund released a study comparing primary care in the United States to other industrialized countries. Primary care needs...

Let me briefly connect some dots on the Wall Street Journal’s recent coverage of private Medicare Plans known as Medicare Advantage (MA)...

A new AHA report finds that during 2021-2023, hospital costs grew 12.4%, more than two times faster than Medicare reimbursement at 5.2%....

As USA Today reports, the entire Social Security cost of living adjustment (COLA) boost for 2024 will be canceled out. The culprit?...

AARP prepared a Special Bulletin this month to inform readers about Medicare’s open enrollment options during this year's open enrollment...

I'm excited to be on a panel titled "The Business of Healthcare: Understanding the Value Equation from a CEO and CFO Perspective" at...

I recently talked with Pharmacy Times about the real cost of avoiding death at the end of life. If you'd like to read what I had to say,...

A recent article from MarketWatch brings up an important point: The Medicare trust fund is in trouble, but not for the reasons you might...

4sight Health, a thought leadership and advisory company, invited me to discuss how the increasing complexity in healthcare payment...

I spoke recently with Jessica Hall of MarketWatch about my recommendations for reforming end of life care. You can read the interview...

Profit-Obsessed Private Equity is Now Dominating the US Hospice System by Lily Meyersohn offers insights to address hospice care...

Hospice saves Medicare billions annually. This is the conclusion of research reported by author Jim Parker in Hospice News. One might...