Birth Centers
Kozhimannil, Katy B. Impossible Math: Financing a Freestanding Birth Center and Supporting Health Equity. AJMC, 2019. (Same article under Billing & Insurance.)
Billing & Insurance
Every midwife who bills out-of-network insurance knows the pitfalls of insurance companies sending checks to clients, even when the client and midwife agree and request the money should go to the midwife. Finally, a court case may change that:
Drash, Wayne. Insurer skips doctors and sends massive checks to patients, prompting million-dollar lawsuit. CNN, 2019.
Ingram, David. State by state, some patients are losing telehealth access to doctors. NBC News, 2022.
Kozhimannil, Katy B. Impossible Math: Financing a Freestanding Birth Center and Supporting Health Equity. AJMC, 2019. (Same article under Birth Centers.)
Bioethics
Family of Henrietta Lacks files suit against biotech company for using famous ‘HeLa’ cells without permission. Baltimore Sun, October 2021.
Circumcision and Genital Mutilation
A Botched Circumcision and Its Aftermath is written by a Jewish man who lives with that aftermath, and takes a critical look at even religious circumcision. The New Yorker, Oct 2021.
This study out of Canada concluded "circumcision was not independently associated with the risk of acquiring HIV among males from Ontario, Canada." Journel of Urology, September 2021.