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Surgery Centers with Cash-Friendly Pricing

Resources for Patients Looking for Transparent Surgery Pricing. Tell us about other facilities or resources that should be added to this page: [email protected] Surgery Center of Oklahoma – http://www.SurgeryCenterOK.com THE pioneer in cash pricing for surgery QuikSurg – https://www.quiksurg.com/ Chattanooga, TX Lonestar Surgery Center – https://lonestarsurgeryctr.com/ West University Place (Houston), TX No Insurance Surgery – http://www.noinsurancesurgery.com/ Las Vegas, […]

AAPS Takes MOC to Court

April 2018 update: On April 5, 2018, AAPS filed a Brief in Opposition to ABMS’ Motion to Dismiss: http://aapsonline.org/aaps-v-abms-04-06-2018.pdf ——————————————– January 2018 update: On January 16, 2018 AAPS filed an “Amended Complaint with Class Action” in AAPS vs. ABMS. The full complaint is available at: http://aapsonline.org/AAPS_v_ABMS_Amended_Complaint_1_16_2018.pdf ——————————————– December 2017 update: The federal court in the Northern […]

Common Sense Medicine: Restoring the Patient/Physician Relationship

Common Sense Medicine, hot off the press, is a powerful, easy-to-read, and entertaining exposé of the root problems plaguing American medicine and the simple solutions to increase access to high-quality, low-cost medical care! If you are on the AAPS mailing list you will be receiving a complimentary copy with your August edition of AAPS News. […]

Death of the Great Laboratory of Clinical Medical Science

Free-market capitalism has brought unimaginable innovations to mankind in the last 200 years, more so than any other economic system in the history of the world: airplanes, telephones, personal computers, electric lightbulbs. Far less appreciated, even by those who are ardent advocates of free markets, are the innovations brought by private medical practices through the magic of free-market capitalism.

ObamaCare Winners and Losers

This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. Those who chose a Health Savings Account (HSA) will probably find it regulated out of existence in the 500-page rule for standardized health plans. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433639/health-savings-accounts-obamacare-affordable-care-act-killing-hsa State and federal taxpayers are big losers because of 16 million more Medicaid recipients. CBO estimates that $64 […]

Legislative Update: 3/19/2016

Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes recent healthcare-related legislative activity on Capitol Hill. If Anyone Has Not Yet Heard About This The partial ObamaCare repeal passed via reconciliation, the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015, H.R. 3762, was vetoed by President Obama. The House attempted to override the veto on February 2, 2016 but […]

Patient Response to “Surprise” or Outrageous Bills

With the help of Frank Lobb, author of The Great Health Care Fraud and Too Big to Be Legal, AAPS has developed suggested letters for insured patients to send in case they get a huge bill from an out-of-network “provider” called in by a hospital, such as the $117,000 bill from a “drive-by” assistant surgeon […]

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