Michael Doring Connelly

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

September 16's Wall Street Journal Opinion Comment ( "Blame Friction, Not Fraud, for the Cost of Healthcare" ) by Robert Charrow, the...

Casey Mean’s best selling book Good Energy offers a powerful personal analysis of how healthcare needs to change. The book offers...

The Wall Street Journal’s investigative report on Medicare Advantage (MA) deftly uncovers little known concerns about how these plans...

Two recent articles illustrate how healthcare policy consistently creates barriers to advancing primary care. In the first , Debra L....

The recent New England Journal of Medicine article on the dangers of private health insurer vertical integration/consolidation raises...

This Wall Street Journal article ( Insurers Pocketed $50 Billion From Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated ) is exceptionally well...

The Wall Street Journal article on 6/23/24 titled When Hospital Prices Go Up, Local Economies Take a Hit   illustrates a fundamental...

4sight Health’s recent article by David W. Johnson titled “Site-Neutral Payment and the Battle Healthcare's Soul” raises critical health...

The word “hospice” often conjures up negative feelings in patients, families and physicians. Simply put, hospice has a marketing...

Reform Medical Coding: Coding and physician reimbursement is the cause of most problems in healthcare. Simplify Medicare: Why is Medicare...

Here's part two of my interview with 4sight Health, a thought leadership and advisory company. I discuss how real reform will require...

This article highlights an important quote about the importance of primary care to the quality of healthcare: “A solid and enduring...

My latest interview focuses on why healthcare reform needs to start with coding. Read it here in Becker's Healthcare.

Check out my latest interview, this time with Authority Magazine. Let me know what you think.

Thank you, Investor’s Business Daily for this article of tribute to Dr. Cicely Saunders, which focuses on her many leadership traits. My...

Professor Paul Lauritzen has composed a compelling piece about end-of-life care. In it, the author recounts the story of his wife Lisa...

Dr. Eric Reinhart’s recent New York Times guest essay, Doctors Aren’t Burned Out From Overwork. We’re Demoralized by Our Health System,...

Since the Enlightenment, we’ve favored science over intangibles like wisdom and art. This belief in science gives us the illusion of...

Reforming Medicare enrollment and simplifying Advance Directives are passions for Dr. Kevin Haselhorst. In this podcast he argues that...