Melinda Beck

Melinda Beck appears in the following:

Sifting the Medicare Data

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Thanks to a Wall Street Journal lawsuit, Medicare released details on how much individual doctors were reimbursed for the year 2012 in a searchable database.  Melinda Beck, health reporter for the Journal, talks about what we've learned so far from the Medicare data. What are consumers and doctors finding out about patient care and billing practices?  Call in and share your findings at 212-433-9692, that's 212-433-WNYC.

 

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Generic vs. Brand Name

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Generic drugs are supposed to be just as effective as brand name drugs, but is that really true? Melinda Beck, Health Journal columnist for the Wall Street Journal; Dr. Donald Klein of the NYU Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Kathleen Jaeger, president and CEO of ...

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