In a new video series, "Office Hours with Dr. Saini," Lown Institute president Vikas Saini gives his take on healthcare affordability topics, one question at a time. This week's question is "How did we get here?" More
Introducing Hot Takes from Health Leaders: a biweekly series featuring candid responses from the policymakers, clinicians, hospital executives, researchers, and advocates who will convene at LOWN26: Confronting Healthcare Affordability on May 21st in Cambridge, MA. More
In a new video series, "Office Hours with Dr. Saini," Lown Institute president Vikas Saini gives his take on healthcare affordability topics, one question at a time. This week's question is "How did we get here?" More
Introducing Hot Takes from Health Leaders: a biweekly series featuring candid responses from the policymakers, clinicians, hospital executives, researchers, and advocates who will convene at LOWN26: Confronting Healthcare Affordability on May 21st in Cambridge, MA. More
Concerns about healthcare costs are beginning to outweigh those of other essentials like housing and food. Where do things go from here? More
With the expiration of enhanced subsidies for ACA plans driving premiums up - and more cuts to public insurance plans on the horizon - how should policymakers respond? More
See the stories that just missed winning a Shkreli Award this year... More
Ahead of this year’s Shkreli’s on Thursday, December 11, we’re revisiting several past winners who reappeared in headlines this year—a Shkreli “class reunion” of sorts—to see what our most disreputable alums have been up to. More
Register now for the 2025 Shkreli Awards, hosted on December 11, 2025 at 1pm More
We called 86 hospitals and primary care offices to see how long it would take to get a new patient appointment. Here's what we found. More
Our recent report found that more than 200,000 unnecessary back surgeries took place over a three year period, costing Medicare more than $1.9 billion. But what about the physicians responsible for this overuse? More
These hospitals are bucking the trend of back surgery overuse with rates below 5% for both spinal fusion and vertebroplasty. More
Spine surgeon Dr. Eugene Carragee reviews the evidence for vertebroplasty. More
Death rates from fall injuries among older Americans more than tripled over the past 30 years. Medications that act on the central nervous system could be the culprit... More
CMS estimated that regulating the radiation dose of CT scans could prevent nearly 14,000 cancers and save $5 billion. So why is CMS considering loosening regulations? More
Hear from Lown's 2025 data science intern, Maya Balaban, about what she's been working on. More
As we prepare for the launch of our 2025 report on unnecessary back surgery, let’s take a moment to check in on the current state of medical overuse in America. More
US News & World Report just released their list of “best hospitals” for 2025-26, which is based primarily on patient outcomes for complex specialty care and common procedures. The Lown Hospitals Index for Social Responsibility takes a different approach to hospital ranking, evaluating hospitals on metrics of equity and value as well as outcomes. Here's how the 2025 US News best hospitals perform on the Lown Index. More
See which critical access hospitals made our list of most socially responsible hospitals…and which ones are at risk of shutting down services or closure. More
A federal judge recently struck down a rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) seeking to remove medical debt from credit reports. How will this affect medical debt in the future? More