Charles Ornstein appears in the following:
Opioid-Makers Cut Back On Marketing Payments To Doctors
Thursday, June 28, 2018
'Extreme' Opioid Use And Doctor Shopping Still Plague Medicare
Thursday, July 13, 2017
States Move To Tighten Medicaid Enrollment, Even Without A New Health Law
Thursday, July 06, 2017
Doctors Prescribe More Generics When Drug Reps Are Kept At Bay
Tuesday, May 02, 2017
Secret Data On Hospital Inspections May Soon Become Public
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
How A Simple Fix For Medicare Prescribing Problems Got Complicated
Friday, February 10, 2017
Drug Distributors Penalized For Turning Blind Eye In Opioid Epidemic
Friday, January 27, 2017
From Twitter To Treatment Guidelines, Industry Influence Permeates Medicine
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
A Growing Group Of Doctors Are Big-Money Prescribers In Medicare
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Federal Officials Seek To Stop Social Media Abuse Of Nursing Home Residents
Monday, August 08, 2016
Social Media Abuse Of Nursing Home Residents Often Goes Unchecked
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Doctors At Southern Hospitals Take The Most Payments From Drug, Device Companies
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Even A Small Meal For A Doctor Can Tip The Balance For A Brand-Name Drug
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
What Feds' Push To Share Health Data Means For Patients
Monday, May 09, 2016
Drug-Company Payments Mirror Doctors' Brand-Name Prescribing
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Supreme Court Strikes At States' Efforts On Health Care Transparency
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow Tuesday to nascent efforts to track the quality and cost of health care, ruling that a 1974 law precludes states from requiring that every health care claim involving their residents be submitted to a massive database.
The arguments were arcane, but the ...
Privacy Violations Rising At Veterans Affairs Medical Facilities
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
When Anthony McCann opened a thick manila envelope from the Department of Veterans Affairs last year, he expected to find his own medical records inside.
Instead, he found over 250 pages of deeply revealing personal information on another veteran's mental health.
"It had everything about him, and I could ...
Repeat Violators Of Health Privacy Laws Often Go Unpunished
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Celebrities' Medical Records Tempt Hospital Workers To Snoop
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Improper access to the medical information of celebrities and people in the news has been a bane of health systems around the country for years. The proliferation of electronic medical records systems has made it easier to track and punish those who peek in records for no legitimate reason.
Below ...