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New lessons from the fight for charity care
For instance: It's a $14 billion battle.
Fight health insurance — with help from AI
I hate insurance companies, says tech worker Holden Karau. So she made a bot to battle with them.
Can racism make you sick?
Violence, silences, and public health, with journalist Cara Anthony
Special Feature: A Beloved Nursing Home, from “To See Each Other”
We're sharing an episode of To See Each Other, about a question thats 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
“Baby steps” in the fight against facility fees
States are tackling facility fees, but its slow going.
Anatomy of a Fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story (from Click Here)
How one rural hospital dealt with a cyberattack.
Don’t get “bullied” into paying what you don’t owe
How one woman stared down a six-figure medical bill and won.
The woman who beat an $8,000 hospital fee
Facility fees from hospitals are more common than ever and one woman was determined not to pay.
Coming soon: your stories on facility fees
For months now, youve been sharing stories with us about facility fees, those sneaky fees that keep showing up on your medical bills. Facility fees are kind of like a cover charge for visiting a health care facility, usually one owned by a hospital.