out-of-network emergency physician working at that hospital. Because patients do not choose their emergency physician …

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 …

can attend an in-network hospital, but receive care from an out-of-network physician. Because patients do not choose their …