Comments on 2019 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule, and Request for Information File Code CMS-1694-P June 23, 2018 Dear Administrator Verma: […]
In this edition of Health Policy News Roundup, Dr. Jane Orient dives into the implications of increased flexibility for Association Health Plans and Short Term Limited Duration Insurance. Association Health Plans The Labor Department just […]
The Department of Labor has finalized a rule allowing more options outside of the failing and exorbitantly priced “Affordable Care Act” plans for some 15 million Americans who are self-employed, their 25 million employees, and […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD: Kudos to the folks in D.C. who are advancing alternatives to the Affordable Care Act’s over-regulated and expensive health insurance policies. Small business association health plans and expanding health savings […]
American physicians and patients need to be informing elected officials of serious problems with access to competent, ethical, affordable medical care. They cannot rely on the American Medical Association (AMA), which claims to speak for […]
June 14, 2018 The Honorable Steven Mnuchin Secretary United States Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20220 Dear Secretary Mnuchin, We are thankful for the Trump Administration’s efforts to reduce the […]
Americans may be more worried about the costs of a major illness than about the illness itself, writes Jeanne Pinder in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Prices for various […]
In searching for treatable causes of sky-high medical costs, both government and private entities are scrutinizing the cost of hospital supplies, writes Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D., in the summer issue of the Journal of American […]
According to a recent survey, doctors think that more than 20 percent of medical care in the U.S. is unnecessary, writes Albert L. Fisher, M.D., of Oshkosh, Wis., president of the Association of American Physicians […]
Today, your doctor is likely to be a “stranger at the bedside,” making decisions according to the “new morality” of bioethics, rather than the traditional Oath of Hippocrates, writes Jeffrey Hall Dobken, M.D., M.P.H., in […]
