The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed solutions that implement President Trump’s Executive Order to encourage hospital price transparency. While more fundamental reforms are needed for lasting change, it is past time […]
Volume 75, no. 9 Dr. Robot is visiting patients in some places but could be displaced by Dr. Alexa, the virtual assistant in Amazon smart speakers, who is already able to perform certain health-related tasks. […]
If a Medicare patient gets a service performed in a hospital-owned facility, Medicare may pay far more than if the same service was done in a physician-owned clinic, writes Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., in the […]
In the case of Warren v. Dinter, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a physician acting on behalf of an Obamacare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) can be held culpable for the “reasonably foreseeable” result of […]
While few people really like the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or ‘Obamacare’)—even Democrats running for President criticize it, it might require a federal court to actually terminate it, writes attorney Andrew Schlafly in the fall […]
Increasingly expansive and coercive vaccine mandates are placing the supposed collective good of society above the right of patients or their parents to give or withhold informed consent, writes Jane M. Orient, M.D., in a […]
The antibiotic era began in the 1940s, and with these “miracle drugs” it appeared that mankind was winning what was perceived to be a war on microbes. “But we overlooked or underestimated their ability to […]
Patients who receive a “surprise medical bill” are surprised because they thought they had insurance, and that the insurer was supposed to pay. As Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D., explains in the fall issue of the Journal […]
On August 30, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued a huge win for a physician fighting back against Sham Peer Review. Lawrence Huntoon, MD, PhD, Chairman of the AAPS Committee to […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Now that the Russia collusion story has lost its glow, the left’s narrative du jour is that anyone expressing a contrary opinion is a racist. It is so exhausting! […]
