patients. Recently the federal government has intruded into the patient-physician relationship by adopting a requirement that … physicians provide free oral and written translation services to limited English proficient patients, without reimbursement, or …

Medicare pricing is known to indirectly influence provider prices and care provision for non-Medicare patients; however … choices for non-Medicare patients responded to Medicare removing a ban on ambulatory surgery center (ASC) use for a specific … procedure. Following the rule change, surgeons began reallocating both Medicare and commercially insured patients to ASCs …