鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Her Bill for a Prenatal Test Felt Like a ‘Bait-and-Switch’ Scheme
Her doctor told her the noninvasive genetic test would be $99. When she called, she was told $250 and if she didn't pay quickly it could be $800.
An Arm and a Leg
Health care 鈥 and how much it costs 鈥 is scary. But you鈥檙e not alone with this stuff, and knowledge is power.聽
An Arm and a Leg, a podcast about these issues, is co-produced by host Dan Weissmann and 麻豆女优 Health News. Previously, Weissmann was a staff reporter for Marketplace and Chicago’s WBEZ. His work also appears on “All Things Considered,” Marketplace, the BBC, 99% Invisible, and “Reveal” from the Center for Investigative Reporting.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: One ER Doctor Grapples With the Inequities of American Health Care
This episode is an interview with Dr. Thomas Fisher, author of "The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER."
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Good News for Your Credit Report
In July, credit reporting bureaus will start taking paid medical debt off people's credit reports. Here's what you need to know.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Private Equity Is Everywhere in Health Care. Really.
Private equity companies are the house-flippers of the investment world, and they鈥檝e found their way into many areas of our lives 鈥 including your local gastroenterologist's office.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: A Fight for the Right to Help
It's illegal for a person who isn't a lawyer to give even basic legal advice to people being sued for medical debt. Two New Yorkers are suing to change that.
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How to Avoid Surprise Bills 鈥 And the Pitfalls in the New Law
The No Surprises Act offers protection from many surprise medical bills 鈥 but that protection may be only as good as a patient鈥檚 knowledge of the law and ability to make sure it鈥檚 enforced. Here鈥檚 what you need to know.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Need an Expensive Drug? Here’s What You Need to Know
Even a personal finance expert can get stuck with a huge unexpected bill for a drug. Listen up for what you need to know about "copay accumulators."
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Know Your ‘No Surprises’ Rights
The No Surprises Act protects patients from surprise out-of-network bills. But there are caveats. For instance, these protections apply only to care in a hospital. This episode breaks it all down.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: The Rapid-Test Edition: Who’s Making a Buck?
In this episode, host Dan Weissmann talks to reporters who investigated the shortage of tests and traced the U.S. rapid-testing problem back to government agencies.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: She Fights Health Insurers for Fun 鈥 And Wins
Law professor Jackie Fox looks at health insurance policies like any other contract, and she has spent 30 years making sound legal arguments to help patients get the care they need.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: How to Avoid the Worst Health Insurance
Listen to a journalist's first-person horror story on shopping for health insurance 鈥 and learn how to avoid the pitfalls.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: The Insurance Warrior’s Battle Plan
Health care 鈥 and how much it costs 鈥 is scary. But knowledge is power. Take a master class in winning insurance appeals. In the case of Matthew Lientz, taking on his insurance also meant going up against his employer.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Need Surgery to Save Your Life? Tips for Getting Insurance to Pay
Laurie Todd calls herself the 鈥淚nsurance Warrior鈥 and is sharing her strategies for getting health insurance companies to bend to her will.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Hello? We Spend 12 Million Hours a Week on the Phone With Insurers
In this episode, we get our bearings on self-funded insurance plans, and how they affect the average 鈥 sometimes burned-out 鈥 American worker trying to get answers about insurance.
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C贸mo hacer desaparecer una deuda m茅dica: 5 consejos para usar la asistencia caritativa del hospital
La Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA), tambi茅n conocida como Obamacare, requiere que los hospitales sin fines de lucro pongan a disposici贸n de los pacientes de bajos ingresos asistencia financiera, y que publiquen esas pol铆ticas en l铆nea.
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How to Crush Medical Debt: 5 Tips for Using Hospital Charity Care
The law says nonprofit hospitals are supposed to offer low-income patients financial assistance. But the average person doesn鈥檛 know about it. Here鈥檚 how to get help.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: How One State Protects Patients From Hospital Lawsuits
In Maryland, it's now illegal for a hospital to sue a patient who qualifies for charity care. But in many other states, that's still a thing.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: They Turned Grief Into Action
This episode highlights how New York enacted a charity care law, one of the precursors to the federal provision on charity care in the Affordable Care Act. 聽
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: How Charity Care Made It Into the ACA
In this episode, we hear how the political tango over guaranteeing that nonprofit hospitals provide charity care nearly tanked the Affordable Care Act 鈥 and how the battle over the ACA 鈥渂roke America.鈥
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Meet the Mississippi Lawyer Who Helped Start the Fight for Charity Care
The man famous for taking on Big Tobacco in the '90s, and winning, launched a series of ill-fated national lawsuits against nonprofit hospitals. This episode is the first in a series looking at the origins of charity care.