Richard Payerchin is editor of Medical Economics.
Skyrocketing spending on skin substitutes: Why is traditional Medicare paying so much?
A regional inspector general for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services explains oversight of a multi-billion-dollar trend in Medicare spending.
Physician survey: What are patients saying about recent vaccine debates?
Medical Economics wants to hear from doctors about what patients are asking about in the examination room.
Medical misinformation: the doctor-patient disconnect
A video summary of troubling findings of a Physicians Foundation survey.
Skyrocketing spending on skin substitutes: A massive case of health care fraud
Trump, AstraZeneca expected to announce price deal on pharmaceuticals
Pfizer was at the White House late last month; AstraZeneca touts expansion in Virginia.
Health care prices: Americans pay more and more for less
Trilliant Health analysis outlines trends emerging as health care defies ‘laws of economics.’
Skyrocketing spending on skin substitutes: Medicare spent how much?
Skyrocketing spending on skin substitutes: What caused the increase for Medicare?
Skyrocketing spending on skin substitutes: The start of a trend
U.S. health care must choose: market discipline or government regulation?
As spending climbs and value plummets, Trilliant Health proposes hard questions to buck negative trends.
How does the immune system work? Scientists seeking the answer share Nobel Prize in Medicine
Research into regulatory T cells sets groundwork for treatments for cancer, other diseases.
Telehealth on hold: A message to physicians
A policy expert of the American Telemedicine Association reacts to the suspension of flexibilities for telehealth care in traditional Medicare.
Telehealth on hold: Bad effects on rural health
Telehealth on hold: Acute Hospital Care at Home — a visionary program now on hold
Telehealth on hold: What about mental health care?
Telehealth on hold: Will private insurers follow the lead of traditional Medicare?
Telehealth on hold: Why not make telehealth flexibilities permanent?
Telehealth on hold: Did this happen because of the federal government shutdown?
Telehealth on hold: What is the scope and scale of telehealth now?
Telehealth on hold: the silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic
‘A very sad, desperate state’ as telehealth flexibilities go on hold: What does this mean for physicians and patients?
A policy expert from the American Telemedicine Association offers his summary of what’s happening in Washington, D.C.
Telehealth on hold: An easy way to get involved now
Telehealth on hold: Keep seeing patients online? Or shift visits to the office?
Telehealth on hold: Is Medicare retroactive payment guaranteed?
Telehealth on hold: ‘A very sad, desperate state’
CVD, the global killer; microplastics in human and animal bones; kitchen science and the physics of pasta — Morning Medical Update
The top news stories in medicine today.
HHS-OIG: We’ve got ‘major concerns’ about massive increases in Medicare spending for skin substitutes
Feds highlight huge growth in spending on wound care and why it could be problematic in health care.
NIH funding cuts — a ‘what if?’ look back; paying more for less successful surgical outcomes; on choices, habit and health — Morning Medical Update
U.S. needs telehealth to avoid regressing in health care access during federal shutdown, ATA says
Retroactive reimbursement, hospital at home are needed to ensure coverage during federal government shutdown.
AAFP: Federal shutdown hurts patient access to care, training programs for new physicians
Family physicians say they stand with their patients and want swift resolution to federal government shutdown.