A group of nurses in Baltimore wants to bring basic care to every person in a neighborhood regardless of age, health, income or insurance. Can this idea from abroad take root in the United States? Guests: Dawn Alley, PhD, Head of Scale, IMPaCT Care Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, Executive Director, Ariadne Labs Regina Hammond, Founder, Rebuild Johnston Square Neighborhood Organization Chris Koller, President, Milbank Memorial Fund Terry Lindsay, Community Health Worker, Sisters Together and Reaching,...

As Congress figures out the future of telehealth, we get a reality check from a top researcher about what this care has and has not delivered.  Guest: Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, Professor, Brown University School of Public Health Learn more and read a full transcript on our website. Want more Tradeoffs? Sign up for our free weekly newsletter featuring the latest health policy research and news. Support this type of journalism today, with a gift. Follow us on Twitter.  Hosted on Acast. See...

Just like the rest of us, when clinicians are short on time and overwhelmed by complex decisions, their brains look for corners to cut, numbers to round, patterns to repeat. This week, Dan talks with Harvard physician and economist Bapu Jena about the surprising impact these mental shortcuts can have on our health care. Guest: Bapu Jena, MD, PhD, Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital Learn more and read a full transcript on our...

While stories of private equity firms running amok in health care are easy to find, new research paints a more nuanced picture. Guests: Ambar La Forgia, PhD, Professor of Management of Organizations, Berkeley Haas School of Business Rachel Werner, MD, PhD, Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania Yashaswini Singh, PhD, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health Atul Gupta, PhD, Professor Health...

A major new study throws cold water on a popular approach to relieving medical debt, but leading experts say the research also reveals a promising path forward. Guests: Henry Harrell, MD, Physician  Neale Mahoney, PhD, Professor of Economics, Stanford University Allison Sesso, President and CEO, Undue Medical Debt Learn more and read a full transcript on our website. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Follow us on X, LinkedIn and Youtube.  Email us at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast....

One advocate’s vision for the crucial role patients must play in the future of health care AI. Andrea Downing, President and Co-Founder, The Light Collective Learn more and read a full transcript on our website. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Follow us on X, LinkedIn and Youtube.  Email us at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 this small but costly group of patients. What have they learned? Guests: Jeff Brenner, MD, CEO, The Jewish Board Arthur Brown, Client, Camden Coalition Amy Finkelstein, PhD, Professor of Economics, MIT; Co-Scientific Director, J-PAL North America Allison...

One doctor debates whether to work for the nation's largest insurance company after it purchased the independent practice she worked for in Oregon. Guest: Gwen O'Keefe, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, OHSU Learn more and read a full transcript on our website. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Follow us on X, LinkedIn and Youtube.  Email us at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans. Guest: Sandy E. James, JD, PhD, Lead Researcher, 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey Learn more and read a full transcript on our website. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Follow us on X, LinkedIn and Youtube.  Email us at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and Latina girls get left behind? Guests: Monica Bhatt, PhD, Senior Research Director, University of Chicago Education Lab Sheretta Butler-Barnes, PhD, Professor, Washington University Kathleen Ethier, PhD, Director, CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health Ngozi Harris, LCPC, Working on Womanhood Director of Program and Staff Development, Youth...

Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.  Guest: Benjamin Chartock, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics, Bentley University Learn more and read a full transcript on our website. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Follow us on X, LinkedIn and Youtube.  Email us at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. We get an inside look at one doctor’s quest to improve health care for people with conditions like Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy and autism. Guests: Alison Barkoff, JD, Administration for Community Living, HHS Kevin Carlson Clarissa Kripke, MD, Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Director...

A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the country’s sickest, poorest patients? Guests: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Saleema Render-Hornsby, Dually eligible patient Allison Rizer, MBA, Executive Vice President, ATI Advisory Eric Roberts, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Casey Schwarz, JD, Senior Counsel, Medicare Rights Center Hong Truong,...

There are a lot of concerns about the dangers artificial intelligence could pose to your health privacy. AI expert Nicholson Price explains why he thinks too much concern over privacy could make health care AI worse. Guest: Nicholson Price, JD, PhD, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Learn more and read a full transcript on our website. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Follow us on X, LinkedIn and Youtube.  Email us at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could wind up being worse for patients.  Guests: Ge Bai, PhD, CPA, Professor of Accounting at Carey Business School, Professor of Health Policy at Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University  Jill Horwitz, PhD, JD, MPP, David Sanders Professor of Law and Medicine and Founding Faculty Director, Lowell Milken Center for Philanthropy and...

A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we talk with journalist Steven Petrow about his sister’s choice to use medical aid in dying. Guest: Steven Petrow, Journalist and author Learn more and read a full transcript on our website. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Follow us on X, LinkedIn and Youtube.  Email us at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits? Guest: Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; primary care physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital Learn more and read a full transcript on our website. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Follow us on X, LinkedIn and Youtube.  Email us at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A live conversation between a top federal health official and a health care executive about how they must work together to keep AI from exacerbating racial bias in health care. Guests: Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services James Ellzy, MD, Chief Health Officer, Oracle Health Government Services Learn more and read a full transcript on our website. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Follow us on X,...

Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way health care is delivered in America.  Guests: Zach Baron, Co-director of Health Policy and the Law Initiative, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health at Georgetown University Law Center Katie Eyer, Professor at Rutgers Law School  Laurie Sobel, Associate Director of Women's Health Policy at KFF Learn more and read a full transcript on our...

Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use. Guests: Eric Ezzi, Certified Recovery Specialist, Penn Medicine Ashish Thakrar, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Leslie Suen, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco Ryan Levi, Reporter/Producer, Tradeoffs  Learn more and read a full transcript on our website. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Follow us on X,...

We've got a lot to share with you in 2024! We're looking into how fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are upending long established treatments for opioid addiction, and what clinicians and policymakers are doing to adapt. There are a bunch of cases in the courts this year that have the potential to change Americans' access to care, and restrict the power of federal health agencies. And nearly 25 years after a landmark case, declaring that people with intellectual and developmental...

Last fall, the federal government named its first 10 targets for historic drug price negotiations with big pharma. Those negotiations are expected to heat up this February when federal officials make their opening price offers. This week, we offer a refresher on how this negotiation process will work and the impact it could have. Guests: Anton Avanceña, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Outcomes, University of Texas  Darius Lakdawalla, PhD, Professor of Pharmaceutical Economics and Public...

More than 130 hospitals have closed in rural America over the last decade. Reporter Sarah Jane Tribble spent a year embedded in one small Kansas town as they dealt with their own hospital closure. Guest: Sarah Jane Tribble, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News Read a transcript of this conversation: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/08/losing-a-hospital/ Hear more of Sarah Jane's reporting about Fort Scott on the first season of Where It Hurts: whereithurts.show Hosted on Acast. See...

From where medical students are choosing to train to how doctors are caring for women in reproductive health crises, the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe has had major ripple effects on the field of medicine. In this conversation from our friends at STAT's First Opinion podcast, host Torie Bosch talks with two abortion providers about what it's like to practice medicine in post-Roe America. Learn more and read a full transcript on our website. Support this type of journalism today,...

Economist Amy Finkelstein has studied America’s patchwork of health insurance policies for more than 20 years. In a forthcoming book she concludes it’s time tear the whole system down. This week, Dan talks with Amy about how she came to that conclusion and what a better system could look like.  Guest: Amy Finkelstein, PhD, Professor of Economics, MIT Learn more and read a full transcript on our website. Support this type of journalism today, with a gift, which for a limited time will be...