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Patients Push to Shape the Future of AI

One advocate’s vision for the crucial role patients must play in the growth of health care AI.

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‘How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?’ Transcript

‘How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?’ Transcript April 25, 2024 Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly turn into $10,000 hospital visits. America’s health care leaders have spent years trying to help…

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How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?

Health care leaders share what they’ve learned from two decades of trying to keep this group of costly, complicated patients out of the hospital.

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An Insurance Company Bought This Doctor’s Practice. She’s Worried About Her Patients

One doctor debates whether to work for the nation’s largest insurance company after it purchased the independent practice she worked for in Oregon.

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92,000 Transgender People Took This Survey. Here’s What We Learned

As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.

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Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess

Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting over prices.

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‘One Doctor’s Quest to Improve Health Care for People with Disabilities’ Transcript

‘One Doctor’s Quest to Improve Health Care for People with Disabilities’ Transcript March 21, 2024 As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospitals and insurers are getting in the way. This week, we get an inside look at one doctor’s quest…

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One Doctor’s Quest to Improve Health Care for People with Disabilities

As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospitals and insurers are getting in the way.

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Sen. Bill Cassidy Wrestles with a $500 Billion Health Care Problem

Tradeoffs talks with Sen. Bill Cassidy about a new bipartisan effort to improve care for some of the country’s poorest, sickest patients.

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Can Washington Make Medicare and Medicaid Work Better Together?

Poor, sick Americans are stuck in a Medicare-Medicaid maze. Is a fix in sight?

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