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Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.
- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 17:20
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
A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 16:39
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
- Purchases: 1
It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...
- Added: Jul 14, 2023
- Length: 24:53
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
- Purchases: 1
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
- Purchases: 1
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
California is in the early days of one of the most ambitious initiatives ever to address Medicaid patients’ social needs in hopes of improving thei...
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 30:48
Why has a little-known program designed to help hospitals and clinics that serve low-income people become one of the most controversial health poli...
- Added: Jul 07, 2022
- Length: 16:16
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
The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...
- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 03:51
A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade has health care providers scrambling. We talk with an OB-GYN at the University...
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- Added: May 05, 2022
- Length: 12:53
- Purchases: 1
After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...
- Added: Apr 14, 2022
- Length: 22:11
We explore “cascades of care” — how a doctor’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
- Added: Mar 03, 2022
- Length: 18:18
This week, we speak with Peter Lee who has led Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act health benefit exchange, for a decade. As he pre...
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 18:08
Every 5 years, the FDA has to renegotiate billions of dollars in user fees with the drug and medical device companies it regulates. Congress has to...
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 18:33
In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 22:47
Letting private insurers offer Medicaid coverage was supposed to lower costs and improve care. We dig into the research on Medicaid managed care.
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- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 22:32
- Purchases: 1