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Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.
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- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 17:20
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With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 15:44
Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 23:50
One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...
- Added: Nov 17, 2023
- Length: 22:59
California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 16:55
Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they ...
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- Added: Sep 22, 2023
- Length: 24:12
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This summer, our research reporter Soleil Shah added a new role to his resume: first-year medical resident. Now he spends his days alternating betw...
- Added: Sep 08, 2023
- Length: 17:02
There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden ...
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- Added: May 26, 2023
- Length: 18:27
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A new class of drugs can help people lose up to one-fifth of their body weight and manage serious health conditions associated with obesity. But th...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 16:32
The pandemic pushed Medicare to start paying for “hospital-at-home” care for the first time, launching the largest test ever of home-based hospital...
- Added: Mar 24, 2023
- Length: 24:21
Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...
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- Added: Feb 03, 2023
- Length: 20:23
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After 20 years, Humira – the best selling drug of all time – is finally facing direct competition. Typically, once generic drugs arrive on a market...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 18:07
Initial screenings for breast, lung, cervical cancer are free, but expensive secondary tests can leave patients in screening purgatory.
- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 14:24
A personal and political fight to keep abortion legal in Michigan is in full swing — in the courts, on the campaign trail, at the ballot box this N...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 17:59
How one hospital is scrambling to deal with a shortage of a critical drug, and what changes are needed to fix chronic problems with the U.S. medica...
- Added: Jun 16, 2022
- Length: 19:57