This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Ryan Knutson: Our colleague Julie Wernau covers health and medicine. And for the ...

Regarding “Haggling With Insurers Getting Worse, Doctors Say” (U.S. News, Dec. 13): Insurance-based rules have created many pain points for physicians trying to deliver routine office-based care.

Physicians face a myriad of financial and legal risks not seen in many other professions, including malpractice lawsuits and personal liability. At the same time, while doctors are among the most ...

With the red tape of health insurance already causing frustration for millions of Americans, doctors are helping to shed light on a common industry practice: downcoding. Insurance companies change ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with American Medical Association President Bruce Scott about how physicians and patients are burdened by insurance companies' systems of prior authorization. A lot has been ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After seven years in medicine, Dr. Rebecca Bub knew she needed a change. She was burned out from working long hours in primary care. An attempt to fix the ...

In the beginning of the year, Dr. Terry Wagner’s office manager came to him and said “something weird is going on.” For weeks, the office manager told him, Wagner had been quietly underpaid by the ...

Georgia physicians are suffering from two ailments at the same time. On the one hand, they face the threat of frivolous malpractice lawsuits requiring them to practice defensive medicine. To protect ...