An Arm and a Leg
An Arm and a Leg
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How do you deal with wild drug prices?
We’re kicking off a new reporting project about how much we pay for our medicine - and what we can maybe do about it - and we want to hear your stories.
Because: Getting a case of sticker shock with a prescription happens all the time.
So we’re asking: What have you done - or tried to do - to get the medicines you need at prices you can afford? And what did you learn that might be useful for other people to know?
Maybe you learned a strategy that actually WORKED for you. Like using a coupon or ordering drugs from online pharmacies - even pharmacies in other countries.
Maybe it was, “Man, I learned about a new way I’m getting screwed.”
However things went, tell us about it here: armandalegsho...
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The ‘Shkreli Awards’ - for dysfunction and profiteering in health care
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You remember a guy named Martin Shkreli? If his name rings a bell, it’s probably because back in 2015, he jacked up the price of an old drug - from around $13 a pill to $750. The media dubbed him “the pharma bro,” and he became a symbol of brazen pharmaceutical greed. Now, he’s the namesake for the Shkreli Awards (lowninstitute.org/projects/2024-shkreli-awards/) - a kind of Oscars for the most ...
A listener fighting the good fight
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A few weeks ago, a listener sent us a note with a link to a news article about a new resolution that had recently been adopted by the American Medical Association - the largest group representing doctors in the US. The resolution (www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-supports-firmer-standards-nonprofit-hospital-charity-care) said: hospitals need to do more to guarantee charity care ...
Revisiting ‘Christmas In July’
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Today we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes from the archive - a story about giving - and bringing you an update. In 1980, a young father named Denny Buehler was battling leukemia and needed to travel from Cincinnati to Seattle for treatment. To raise the money, his friends and family threw a softball tournament. Denny passed away a few months later. But his friends and family turned th...
New lessons from the fight for charity care
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Longtime listeners to this show know we’ve been talking about something called “charity care” for years. Federal law requires that all nonprofit hospitals have charity care policies - that is, financial assistance policies - to reduce or remove people’s medical bills. The problem: people don’t know about it, and hospitals don’t always make it easy to access. New research suggests that the scale...
Fight health insurance - with help from AI
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Several listeners sent us an article with the headline Make your health insurance cry (sfstandard.com/2024/08/23/holden-karau-fight-health-insurance-appeal-claims-denials/) , about a new AI tool to fight health insurance. We had to learn more. Meet Holden Karau: a Bay Area software engineer who says she’s “trying to make health insurance suck a little bit less.” So she’s created an AI tool to a...
Can racism make you sick?
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Something different: We talk with journalist Cara Anthony about topics that don’t always come up in conversations about the cost of health care. For the last four years, she’s been reporting on the public health effects of racism, violence, and intergenerational trauma in a small Missouri town.. The result: A new documentary and podcast series called Silence in Sikeston (kffhealthnews.org/silen...
Special Feature: A Beloved Nursing Home, from “To See Each Other”
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We're sharing an episode of “To See Each Other,” about a question that’s SUPER-relevant to this show: How do we pay for long-term care, like nursing homes? To See Each Other aims to complicate the narrative about small-town Americans. In this new season, host George Goehl heads to Lincoln County, Wisconsin - population, 28,000-and-some. And home to a publicly-run nursing home with a 5-star qual...
“Baby steps” in the fight against facility fees
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An $88 “observation room” fee for a check-up didn’t sit right with Kari Greene, a listener from Oregon. When the price went up to $99 the next year, Kari complained to her benefits rep; they thought it was weird, too - but couldn’t do anything about it. In states like Connecticut and Indiana, legislators are trying to do something about fees like these - often called “facility fees.” In this ep...
Anatomy of a Fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story (from Click Here)
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What happens when a hospital gets hit by a ransomware attack? We’re sharing an episode from a podcast called Click Here (therecord.media/podcast) that takes us inside the aftermath of a cyber attack on a rural hospital in Oregon. The story starts the minute the hospital’s IT director finds out they’ve been hacked, and follows him and his colleagues as they scramble to keep the place running whi...
Don’t get “bullied” into paying what you don’t owe
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Caitlyn Mai expected her share of a recent surgery bill to be about $2,000, with insurance covering the rest. Then she started getting alerts on her phone from the hospital that she owed $139,000 - the full cost of her surgery. But Caitlyn, a legal assistant in Oklahoma, instinctively knew a cardinal rule of the American healthcare system - “never pay the first bill.” It’s a lesson we first hea...
We want to see your hospital bills
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We’re starting a new investigation and need your help. We’re looking into something we’ve talked about a lot on this show: hospital financial assistance - also known as “charity care” - which most hospitals are legally required to offer. Something like 60 percent of people might qualify to have their hospital bills reduced or even forgiven through charity care - but of course nowhere close to 6...
The woman who beat an $8,000 hospital fee
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Georgann Boatright's local hospital told her she'd need to pay an $8,000 "operating room" charge for a test she was pretty darn sure wouldn't involve an operating room. So she went elsewhere, even though it meant driving to another state. Avoiding that charge required more than just a willingness to go - literally - way out of her way. Georgann Boatright has knowledge, skills, and grit that mos...
Meet the Middleman’s Middleman
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Meet the Middleman’s Middleman
Staying on Medicaid seems tougher than it should be
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Staying on Medicaid seems tougher than it should be
We’re digging into “facility fees.” We need your help.
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We’re digging into “facility fees.” We need your help.
The Hack
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The Hack
Son of Medicare: Attack of the Machines
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Son of Medicare: Attack of the Machines
The Medicare Episode
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The Medicare Episode
Wait, is insulin cheaper now?
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Wait, is insulin cheaper now?
Self defense 101: Keeping your cool while you fight
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Self defense 101: Keeping your cool while you fight
One last tip before 2024
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One last tip before 2024
When hospitals sue patients (part 2)
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When hospitals sue patients (part 2)
When hospitals sue patients (part 1)
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When hospitals sue patients (part 1)
To get health insurance, this couple made a movie
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To get health insurance, this couple made a movie
“Your Money or Your Life”: Dr. Luke Messac’s book on the history of medical debt
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“Your Money or Your Life”: Dr. Luke Messac’s book on the history of medical debt
Paging Dr. Glaucomflecken: Presenting “The Nocturnists - Conversations: Will & Kristin Flanary (T...
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Paging Dr. Glaucomflecken: Presenting “The Nocturnists - Conversations: Will & Kristin Flanary (T...
John Green vs Johnson & Johnson: The Fault in Our Patents, part 2
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John Green vs Johnson & Johnson: The Fault in Our Patents, part 2
John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (part 2)
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John Green vs. Johnson & Johnson (part 2)
John Green v Johnson & Johnson: The Fault in Our Patents
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John Green v Johnson & Johnson: The Fault in Our Patents