Jesse Pines, MD HEALTH POLICY SECTION EDITOR Dr. Pines is a practicing emergency physician and a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy at the George Washington University. ARTICLES May 31, 2018 Strategies to Avoid Contested Admissions January 19, 2018 Cost Disease and Emergency Medicine: Can We Do More With Less? August 15, 2017 Observation Status: The New Treatment, Payment Paradigm July 7, 2017 Insurers Begin Denying Payment for “Unnecessary” ED Care April 19, 2017 The Mathematics of Syncope October 7, 2016 Taking PDMPs Up a Notch September 12, 2016 MACRA Under the Hood, Part II August 12, 2016 Goodbye SGR, Hello MACRA June 3, 2016 Single Payer Healthcare: Beyond the Rhetoric April 11, 2016 EPs Stand Poised at the Center of the Telemedicine Revolution