Barbara Feder Ostrov

Proposed Medicare bill would raise docs’ pay with inflation

Publish date: April 24, 2023

The legislation is essential to enabling physician practices to better absorb payment distributions triggered by budget neutrality rules,...

Publish date: March 28, 2023

The proposed law would shield health care providers who are legally performing their jobs in California from facing prosecution in another state...

Publish date: March 7, 2018

“There aren’t a lot of options available to Medicaid programs in terms of controlling costs, because we don’t set the initial costs”

Publish date: May 25, 2016

Publish date: February 4, 2016

Publish date: October 1, 2015

Today, U.S. doctors, hospitals, and health insurers must start using the ICD-10, a vast new set of alphanumeric codes for describing diseases and...

Publish date: August 31, 2015

The study adds to a growing body of research nationally showing that temporary diversions of ambulances from the nearest hospital can harm...