Associated Press - Is It an Emergency? Insurer Makes Patients Question ER Visit

Jesse Pines, MD, director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Policy Research and professor of emergency medicine and of health policy and management, spoke to Associated Press for an article discussing the effects of some health insurers trying to curb unnecessary emergency room visits. This story was also covered by the ABC News, Arkansas Online, The Durango Herald (Colorado), San Francisco Chronicle, U.S. News & World Report, WPXI11 (Pittsburgh), and WTOP.

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