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This commentary was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 20, Number 3, Pages 83-89, Fall 2015. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Public Law 89-97, the Social Security Amendments of 1965 that created...

Story written by Dan Mangan at CNBC You might survive going to the emergency room — but the “surprise” bill you get later could be a real killer. A new study that looked at more than 2 million emergency department visits found that more than 1 in ...

Posted on Thu, 03/24/2016 - 9:00am Welcome, fellow Wonks! It's a great honor to be asked to host Health Wonk Review, especially the week of the 6th Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act! Since this is the first time I've hosted HWR, I'll keep things...

Two recent nationwide studies, published in Health Affairs and The New England Journal of Medicine, both found that 20 percent of emergency department visits and resulting admissions at in-network facilities involved an out-of-network physician. The...

A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine adds some more epidemiological data to the issue of the treatment of geriatric depression.  The centerpiece of the article by Ramin Mojabai, MD is a graphic that is a combination of data from...