Out to Pasture: Age-Based Personnel Policies Rankle With Docs

(MedPage Today) -- But some health systems like hard age cutoffs as a "bright line"

Big Push: Hospitals Turn to 'Laborists' for Safer Deliveries

(MedPage Today) -- About 250 hospitals are using them, up from 10 a decade ago

Medicare at 50: Run to Value

(MedPage Today) -- Out goes fee-for-service, in comes -- what?

Medicare Physician Payment: Seeking Control

(MedPage Today) -- Efforts to rein in costs become ever more convoluted; SGR proves no help.

The Birth and Increasingly Troubled Life of Medicare

(MedPage Today) -- Fears of "socialized medicine" swept aside, but cost concerns eventually overtake program.

Medicare at 50: 'Reasonable and Medically Necessary Treatment'

(MedPage Today) -- One doctor looks back on the beginnings of Medicare in this six-part series.

Medicaid's Transparency, Specialty Access Need Fixing

(MedPage Today) -- Government Accountability Office report highlights challenges facing the program