The Medical Care Wheel of Misfortune
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD You finally get your dream and are selected to be a contestant on Wheel of Fortune. You get to see Pat Sajak and Vanna White! You win a vacation […]
Don’t Buy What They Are Selling
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Buying and selling is in the news lately with President “at some point you’ve made enough money,” “climate change is urgent and growing” Obama’s well-publicized imminent purchase of a […]
Action Alert: Sunshine on Secret Prices
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 […]
AAPS News September 2019 – Dr. Alexa Will See You Now
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. […]
Medicare May End Price Discrimination against Independent Physicians
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 […]
‘Gatekeepers’ Can Be Culpable
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 […]
Court Might Disconnect ‘Obamacare’ from Life Support
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 […]
Vaccines Have Risks as Well as Benefits and Require Informed Consent
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 […]
‘Magic Bullets’ Failing in Medicine
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 […]
“What is the ‘Surprise’ in Medical Bills?”
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 […]
