Episodes
‘Hot Spotters’ on Trial
What do you do when a process celebrated for keeping the country's costliest patients out of the hospital doesn't work as well as we thought?
Leap of Faith
As the opioid crisis continues to ravage the country, some states are turning to controversial laws that force people into treatment.
The Good Stuff
Two friends—a doctor and an economist—have spent more than 20 years trying to redesign insurance around one simple but elusive goal: make the good stuff...
Feeding the Sick
We know good nutrition is tied to good health. But is there evidence that food should be prescribed and paid for like medicine?
What Brings You In Today?
Health care leaders are spending more time and money trying to improve how doctors and nurses communicate with their patients. Are those efforts working?
The Train Has Left the Station
What have 30 years of hospital mergers meant to the cost and quality of care we receive? And where do we go from here?
The Town the Ballpark Is In
A team of economists and coders has built one of the most influential machines in health care—a machine almost no one has ever heard of.
The Price of Innovation
Is it possible to lower drug prices without losing out on breakthrough treatments in the future?