鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: She Fights Health Insurers for Fun 鈥 And Wins
Law professor Jackie Fox looks at health insurance policies like any other contract, and she has spent 30 years making sound legal arguments to help patients get the care they need.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: How to Avoid the Worst Health Insurance
Listen to a journalist’s first-person horror story on shopping for health insurance 鈥 and learn how to avoid the pitfalls.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: The Insurance Warrior’s Battle Plan
Health care 鈥 and how much it costs 鈥 is scary. But knowledge is power. Take a master class in winning insurance appeals. In the case of Matthew Lientz, taking on his insurance also meant going up against his employer.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Need Surgery to Save Your Life? Tips for Getting Insurance to Pay
Laurie Todd calls herself the 鈥淚nsurance Warrior鈥 and is sharing her strategies for getting health insurance companies to bend to her will.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Hello? We Spend 12 Million Hours a Week on the Phone With Insurers
In this episode, we get our bearings on self-funded insurance plans, and how they affect the average 鈥 sometimes burned-out 鈥 American worker trying to get answers about insurance.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: How One State Protects Patients From Hospital Lawsuits
In Maryland, it’s now illegal for a hospital to sue a patient who qualifies for charity care. But in many other states, that’s still a thing.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: They Turned Grief Into Action
This episode highlights how New York enacted a charity care law, one of the precursors to the federal provision on charity care in the Affordable Care Act. 聽
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: How Charity Care Made It Into the ACA
In this episode, we hear how the political tango over guaranteeing that nonprofit hospitals provide charity care nearly tanked the Affordable Care Act 鈥 and how the battle over the ACA 鈥渂roke America.鈥
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Meet the Mississippi Lawyer Who Helped Start the Fight for Charity Care
The man famous for taking on Big Tobacco in the ’90s, and winning, launched a series of ill-fated national lawsuits against nonprofit hospitals. This episode is the first in a series looking at the origins of charity care.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Tips for Fighting Medical Bills from ProPublica鈥檚 Marshall Allen
Veteran health journalist Marshall Allen has been exposing health care grifters for years. Now he鈥檚 written a book about how to fight them. Host Dan Weissmann spoke with Allen about some of the best tips from 鈥淣ever Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win.鈥
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: When Your Insurance Company Says No, How to Ask for a Yes
Health care insiders get surprise medical bills, too. One of them shares tips for writing an insurance appeal.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: In Vaccinating Philadelphia, A Mix of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Covid vaccinations are ramping up, so 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg鈥 checked in on the effort in Philadelphia, where capitalism and compassion have clashed.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Revisiting Insulin: How the Medicine Got So Expensive
鈥淎n Arm and a Leg鈥 is updating a story, first reported in 2019, about how insulin got to be so expensive. The latest news is more encouraging than expected.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Viral TikTok Video Serves Up Recipe to 鈥楥rush鈥 Medical Debt
A video on the social media platform TikTok explains how consumers can 鈥渃rush鈥 their hospital bills using charity care policies. This won鈥檛 work for all medical bills, but it might be a good place to start.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Tips for Fighting Medical Bills From a Former 鈥楤ad Guy鈥 Lawyer
Jeff Bloom, a lawyer who used to represent medical-bill collectors in court, is sharing what he knows. 鈥淚 was a bad guy, for sure,鈥 he said. Then, a few years ago, he switched sides.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Host Dan Weissmann Talks Price Transparency on 鈥楢xios Today鈥
Host Dan Weissmann talked about a new federal rule 鈥 a requirement for hospitals to make public the prices they negotiate with insurers 鈥 with Niala Boodhoo for the daily-news podcast 鈥淎xios Today.鈥
鈥楢n Arm And a Leg鈥: How a Former Health Care Executive Became a Health Care Whistleblower
Former health care executive Wendell Potter said, 鈥淲hat I used to do for a living was mislead people into thinking that we had the best health care system in the world.鈥 Now, Potter is a health care whistleblower and spent part of 2020 publishing high-profile apologies for the work he used to do.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: A Look Back at 2020 鈥 What We Learned and Where We鈥檙e Headed
T.K. Dutes 鈥 a former nurse who is now a radio host and podcast-maker 鈥 interviewed 鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥 host Dan Weissmann about what he learned in 2020, and what鈥檚 ahead for the show.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Shopping for Health Insurance? Here鈥檚 How One Family Tried to Pick a Plan
Host Dan Weissmann gives us an inside look at his family鈥檚 quest to pick health insurance for next year. COVID-19 makes it more complicated.
鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Obamacare Alum Andy Slavitt Takes Stock of the COVID Pandemic 鈥 So Far
On the latest episode of 鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Come for insights from an Obama administration health policy leader, stay to hear how frank health policy conversations can get uncomfortable.