Paul Keckley
- Health Economist and a Leading Expert on U.S. Health Industry Trends and Reform
- Managing Editor, The Keckley Report
- Managing Partner, The Keckley Group
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District of Columbia
Paul Keckley Speaker Biography
Dr. Paul Keckley is the Managing Editor of The Keckley Report and Managing Partner of The Keckley Group which provides advisory services to health systems, health insurers, medical groups, and healthcare investors.
He is widely sought as an industry thought leader in industry trends, regulatory policy, and emergent issues and opportunities. In 2010, he facilitated negotiations between the White House and leading healthcare trade organizations pursuant to the passage of the Affordable Care Act and is considered an expert on U.S. health policies specific to delivery and financing.
He writes the Keckley Report, a weekly analysis of key industry trends, and is a columnist for Healthcare Executive. He is a frequent speaker for industry events and contributor to health industry media coverage by CNN, Modern Healthcare, Politico, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal.
He currently serves as an Independent Director of Q Source Memphis, TN; Sullivan Cotter, Chicago IL; CareNova, Charlotte NC and Advisor to Erdman Inc. Madison WI and Lipscomb University School of Business Health Management, Nashville TN and the Disruption Lab also in Nashville TN.
Previously, he served as Executive Director, Navigant Center for Health Research and Policy Analysis, Washington DC (2013-2015), Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, Washington DC (2006-2013), Executive Director, Vanderbilt Center for Evidence-based Medicine, Nashville TN (1999-2006), President, PhyCor Management Corporation, Nashville TN (1994-1999) and Principal, The Keckley Healthcare Market Research, Nashville TN (1974-1993).
He was Principal Investigator about consumer behavior in healthcare for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and has published 3 books, several peer-reviewed studies, and more than 300 independent reports about industry trends and issues.
He served as an Adjunct Professor in Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine and Owen Graduate School of Management (1998-2006) and in Georgetown University’s School of Health Policy (2008-2010).
He holds a B.S. from Lipscomb University, Nashville TN, an M.A. and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, and completed a graduate fellowship at Oxford University, UK.
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Megatrends impacting the US Health Care Industry
• Health and Entitlement Reforms (Regulatory)
• Clinical Innovations that Disrupt Traditional Modes of Care
• Data-driven health care: the convergence of financial and clinical data
• Employer activism: the relentless pursuit of value and exit from ESI
• Plan Growth and Consolidation: new customers, new realities
• Consumerism: the buck stops at home
• New Competitors: Taking Advantage of the Industry’s Disruption
Consumerism in Health Care: Is the Industry Ready?
• Expenditures
• Attitudes and Beliefs
• Expectations and Trade-Offs
• Opportunities
Health Reform 2.0: What to Expect in Round Two
• The intersections of cost containment pressures, competition from new entrants, clinical innovation, politics and the Affordable Care Act’s implementation through 2020: how will each sector respond, and what factors will determine winners and losers
• The status of the ACA’s implementation
• Two catalysts for disruptive change: employers seeking value and consumers forced to engage directly
• Speed traps for providers—physicians, hospitals, long term care providers: fraud and adherence to evidence-based medicine; business relationship transparency
• Realities for health insurers: new customers, consolidation, scrutiny, diversification
Industry Restructuring: ‘Go Big or Get Out’
• Physician-Hospital Alignment
• Acute-Long-Term Care Integration
• Plan-Plan Consolidation
• Plan-Hospital Strategic Partnerships
• Emergent Niche Sectors
• OWAs (Other Weird Arrangements)
