The 2025 Shkreli Awards
A top ten list of healthcare’s worst stories.
2026 BLASR Nominations
Tell us who you think deserves recognition for their extraordinary work
America’s Most Socially Responsible Hospitals
Setting the standard by measuring what matters
Hospital financial
assistance & debt
collection policies
A national data set
Making hospital
tax breaks work
for communities
An analysis of 20 states
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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What these outstanding doctors did in 2025: A follow-up on our BLASR winners
With healthcare costs reaching a crisis level and trust in medicine eroding rapidly, it's more critical than ever that clinicians fearlessly advocate for the public good. Here's what the exceptional Bernard Lown Award winning physicians accomplished last year. More
Will 2026 be the year high costs break the healthcare system?
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
2025 Shkreli Awards – Dishonorable Mentions
See the stories that just missed winning a Shkreli Award this year... More