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Philly-area firm leads the hospital-bill fight vs. the $500 Tylenol

Zach Seward

December 05, 2013 |

WHYY |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

With more and more Americans having to pay medical costs out of pocket, a small company out of Philadelphia called ELAP is on the front lines of the war against escalating charges. By helping overwhelmed patients to de-mystify and negotiate medical bills, they are ensuring patients get the best value and avoid egregious financial distress.

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To Make Hospitals Less Deadly, a Dose of Data

Tina Rosenberg

December 04, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, California

Available statistics on hospital safety don’t tell the public what they need to know to make informed decisions. A dose of data to increase transparency and accountability could be the answer.

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The Hospital Is No Place for the Elderly

Jonathan Rauch

December 01, 2013 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

As the elderly become more likely to have multiple chronic conditions and experience a gradual decline in health towards the end of their lives, a health care approach that centers hospitalization and intensive care might be ineffective and inefficient. Sutter's Advanced Illness Management program (AIM) is using a new, home-based approach to keep down costs and increase quality of life.

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In Iowa, Accountable Care Begins To Make A Difference

Jenny Gold

November 21, 2013 |

KFF Health News |

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Response Location: United States, Fort Dodge, Iowa

In Iowa, a Medicare program uses financial incentives to encourage doctors and hospitals to provide the highest quality care possible. The approach has proven successful in providing comprehensive treatment for frequent patients.

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Who Will Heal the Doctors?

David Bornstein

October 02, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Bureaucracy in the health care system causes burnout among doctors. A new medical course, the Healer's Art, is being offered across the nation, which helps doctors reconnect to the humanity of their work and maintain their commitment for it.

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Medicine's Search for Meaning

David Bornstein

September 18, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States

Medicine is in crisis; doctors face early burnout. Medical education contributes: it creates doctors who don’t show emotion. But The Healer’s Art, a medical school course delivered in an unconventional manner, reminds doctors that they and their patients are above all, human.

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The Amazing People Who Are Changing How Low-Income Moms Give Birth

Catherine Pearson

September 12, 2013 |

The Huffington Post |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

One of the most vexing problems in U.S. maternity care is that low-income women, who have among the worst reproductive health outcomes in this country, also have limited access to outside birthing support. A new government-funded program provides expecting mothers with doulas, trained assistants who offer much needed physical, emotional and informational support before, during and after birth.

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It really does take a village: How Memphis is fixing healthcare

Alex Halperin

September 03, 2013 |

Salon |

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Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

Preventing and treating chronic disease for low-income patients is one of the most vexing and expensive public health problems in this country - the healthcare system in Memphis, Tennessee, is not immune. But in the middle of the last decade, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Memphis’s largest hospital system, began teaming up with churches to address the city’s abysmal health situation and reduce the cost of care.

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The Sense of an Ending

Rebecca Mead

May 20, 2013 |

The New Yorker |

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Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

More than five million Americans have Alzheimer’s or similar illnesses, and that number is growing as the population ages - without any immediate prospect of a cure, advocacy groups have begun promoting ways to offer people with dementia a comfortable decline instead of imposing on them a medical model of care, which seeks to defer death through escalating interventions. An Arizona nursing home offers new ways to care for people with dementia.

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If this was a pill, you'd do anything to get it

Ezra Klein

April 28, 2013 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Doylestown, Pennsylvania

*Medical research has done wonders to rid populations of diseases; however, the U.S. health care system has failed to appropriate the right resources to Medicare patients with one or more chronic conditions. Health Quality Partners in Doylstown, PA enrolls Medicare patients with at least one chronic illness and hospitalization and sends a trained nurse to see them on a routine basis, whether they are healthy or sick. As a result, the HQP program has reduced hospitalizations and cut Medicare costs.

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