Back surgery overuse
200,000 unnecessary procedures at a cost of $2 billion to Medicare
2025 Bernard Lown
Award for Social Responsibility
We’re looking for trailblazing clinicians who are leading the movement for a just and caring healthcare system.
2024 Social Responsibility Rankings
Which of America’s hospitals performed the best this year?
2024 BLASR
Learn more about our most recent winner of the Bernard Lown Award for Social Responsibility, Dr. Lilia Cervantes!
The State of Medical Debt in the U.S.
How do we address the growing problem of medical debt in the United States?
2024 Fair Share Results
Are hospitals giving back as much as they take in tax exemptions?
Avoiding Overuse: Coronary Stents
How professional inertia harms patients and wastes billions of dollars
America’s Most Racially Inclusive Hospitals
Socially responsible hospitals serve everyone in their communities.
Pay Equity
How much should we pay nonprofit hospital CEOs? What are we rewarding them for — and what metrics could we base their salaries on instead?
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2024 Shkreli Awards: Dishonorable Mentions
We recently revealed the winners of the 8th Annual Shkreli Awards, our top ten list of the most egregious examples of healthcare profiteering and dysfunction each year. But there are many, many more examples of the ways our healthcare system is broken. Presenting the Shkreli Awards Dishonorable Mentions! These nominees fell just shy of making […] More
PRESS RELEASE: Shkreli Awards catalog 2024’s worst actors in healthcare
A top ten list of the most egregious examples of profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare. More
GLOBE OP-ED: Lown president reacts to killing of United Health CEO
The killing of United Health CEO Brian Thompson triggered an uproar from the many Americans frustrated with the failures of our health care system. In a recent op-ed in the Boston Globe, Lown president Dr. Vikas Saini shares his take on this important moment and the changes we need to build a radically better health […] More