Tag
costs
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Shedding light on upcoding in the ER
The Houston Chronicle’s Jenny Deam delved into emergency room billing – hospital facility fees as well as “upcoding,” which means…
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Another twist in the HSA debate – do they encourage more spending?
For quite a few years, many conservatives have argued that Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) should play a key role in…
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New tip sheet expands on HealthNewsReview.org criteria
The first AHCJ conference I ever attended was in 2011 in Philadelphia. I had only recently learned about the organization…
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Panel hears how drug price reform efforts could work – or not
One question Julie Appleby posed to a panel she moderated on the high cost of prescription drugs was simple enough:…
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Panel learns why there’s no easy fix for high drug prices
One of the best sessions at Health Journalism 2019 in Baltimore was the panel discussion about drug prices on May…
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Do consumers benefit when health insurers own providers?
Whenever a major merger is announced in health care, the parties routinely tout the benefits for consumers, saying costs will…
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Experts discuss the cost of the Health Policy wars
In the previous post we talked about the two related but distinct health care cost crises – out-of-pocket burdens on…
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Addressing the cost of the Health Policy wars
The ceaseless political warfare over health care, ironically, has become a big obstacle to … fixing health care. Because what…
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GAO report confirms the financially toxic nature of air ambulance fees
Over the past several years, health care journalists have done great work highlighting the problem of surprise medical bills. There’s…
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Top health reporting of 2018 recognized in Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
Reporting that exposed faulty, careless or crooked practices won many top honors in this year’s Awards for Excellence in Health…