An Arm and a Leg: Medical-Debt Watchdog Gets Sidelined by the New Administration
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is offline 鈥 for now. Here鈥檚 what that could mean for people with medical debt.
An Arm and a Leg: How Do You Deal With Wild Drug Prices?
鈥淎n Arm and a Leg鈥 is collecting stories for a new series about how Americans get the medicine they need when faced with sticker shock.
An Arm and a Leg: The 鈥楽hkreli Awards鈥 鈥 For Dysfunction and Profiteering in Health Care
The Lown Institute, a health care think tank, holds a contest every year for the most outrageous stories of greed in health care.
An Arm and a Leg: A Listener Fighting the Good Fight
A medical resident who listens to 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg鈥 is pushing for change with the American Medical Association and at the hospital where he works.
An Arm and a Leg: Revisiting 鈥楥hristmas In July鈥
From the archives of 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg鈥: a family tragedy, a 40-year tradition, and a million dollars in medical debt erased.
An Arm and a Leg: New Lessons in the Fight for Charity Care
Host Dan Weissmann checks back in on the fight for hospital charity care, with lessons from Dollar For and a savvy listener.
An Arm and a Leg: Fight Health Insurance 鈥 With Help From AI
Meet the tech worker on a quest to use artificial intelligence to combat denials for coverage from patients鈥 health plans.
An Arm and a Leg: Can Racism Make You Sick?聽
In this episode of 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg,鈥 host Dan Weissmann sits down with 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 Cara Anthony to talk about the documentary and podcast series she produced about the impact of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police killing on a rural Missouri community. The project is called 鈥淪ilence in Sikeston.鈥
An Arm and a Leg: 鈥楤aby Steps鈥 in the Fight Against Facility Fees
An extra $99 fee on top of a copay for a checkup didn鈥檛 sit right with a listener. Turns out, state legislators across the country aren鈥檛 buying it either.
An Arm and a Leg: Don鈥檛 Get 鈥楤ullied鈥 Into Paying What You Don鈥檛 Owe
In this episode of 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg,鈥 host Dan Weissmann speaks with Caitlyn Mai, a woman in Oklahoma who received a six-figure bill for a surgery her insurance promised to cover. This episode is an extended version of the 鈥淏ill of the Month鈥 series, produced in partnership with NPR.
An Arm and a Leg: The Woman Who Beat an $8,000 Hospital Fee
In this episode of 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg,鈥 host Dan Weissmann speaks with Georgann Boatright, a patient in Mississippi who was willing to drive to another state to avoid paying a steep fee to her local hospital.
An Arm and a Leg: Meet the Middleman鈥檚 Middleman
Why are patients facing bigger bills than they expect for out-of-network care? In this episode of 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg,鈥 the show explains the hidden mechanics of MultiPlan, a data firm that helps health insurers set these rates and make bigger returns.
An Arm and a Leg: Medicaid Recipients Struggle To Stay Enrolled
In this episode of 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg,鈥 the show takes its first look at Medicaid. The program has dropped more than 22 million people since spring 2023, when covid-era protections ended.
An Arm and a Leg: Digging Into Facility Fees
鈥淎n Arm and a Leg鈥 is looking for listener stories about facility fees for a new project.
In this episode of 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg,鈥 host Dan Weissmann explores what the fallout from a cyberattack says about antitrust concerns in health care.
An Arm and a Leg: Attack of the Medicare Machines
In this episode of 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg,鈥 host Dan Weissmann tells a horror story. Instead of monsters and aliens, it鈥檚 about private health insurance companies and algorithms that call the shots on patient care.
An Arm and a Leg: The Medicare Episode
On this episode of 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg,鈥 host Dan Weissmann breaks down the complicated and expensive world of Medicare with practical tips to pick the right plan and avoid penalties.
An Arm and a Leg: Wait, Is Insulin Cheaper Now?
Did the price of insulin go down? It鈥檚 not quite that simple. On this episode of 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg,鈥 producer Emily Pisacreta explores recent changes to the cost of the diabetes medication.
An Arm and a Leg: Self-Defense 101: Keeping Your Cool While You Fight
On this episode of 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg,鈥 host Dan Weissmann seeks advice for fighting unfair medical bills from an unexpected source: an expert in self-defense.
An Arm and a Leg: When Hospitals Sue Patients (Part 2)
Why do hospitals sue patients who can鈥檛 afford to pay their medical bills? On this episode of 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg,鈥 host Dan Weissmann investigates such lawsuits and covers new laws and regulations that may change this practice.
