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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 of the Office of Developmental Primary Care; University of California, San Francisco
Marjorie Ongpauco, BSN, RN, Nursing Consultant
Harold Pollack, PhD, Professor of Social Work, Policy and Practice; University of Chicago
Donna Valencia, BSN, RN, MSN, Administrator, Group Home Administrator
Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs
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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, Caregiver of dually eligible patient
Leslie Walker, Senior Reporter, Tradeoffs
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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
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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 Nonprofits, UCLA
Donna Lynne, DrPH, Denver Health CEO
Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH, President and CEO of America’s Essential Hospitals
Gary Young, PhD, JD, Director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research at Northeastern University
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 disabilities have a right to live outside state-run institutions, we examine how doctors, hospitals and insurers are failing many of them … and one woman's work to forge a better path.
New episodes start 25 January, 2024!
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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 Policy, University of Southern California
Lauren Neves, JD, Deputy Vice President, PhRMA
Steve Pearson, MD, MSc, Founder and President, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER)
Ben Rome, MD, MPH, physician and researcher, Harvard Medical School
Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, Deputy Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs
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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
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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.
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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
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There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden on a burned out workforce. But there are also concerns that these powerful new tools will perpetuate biases and inequities long baked into our health care system.
In Part 2 of our special series on racial bias in health care AI, we dig into what the Biden administration is doing to keep biased algorithms from getting to the bedside.
Guests:
Emily Sterrett, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Improvement Science, Duke University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics
Mark Sendak, MD, MPP, Population Health & Data Science Lead, Duke Institute for Health Innovation
Minerva Tantoco, Chief AI Officer, New York University McSilver Institute for Poverty, Policy and Research
Carmel Shachar, JD, MPH, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
Kathryn Marchesini, JD, Chief Privacy Officer, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Melanie Fontes Rainer, JD, Director, HHS Office for Civil Rights
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Dan Gorenstein will moderate three one-on-one discussions featuring industry leaders and top officials from ONC, FDA, and HHS’ Office of Civil Rights over two plenary sessions, you can watch them here.
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There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden on a burned out workforce. But there are also concerns that these powerful new tools will perpetuate biases and inequities long baked into our health care system.
In the first of two back-to-back episodes on racial bias in health care AI, we explore the challenge of diagnosing bias in AI and what one health system is trying to do about it.
Guests:
Emily Sterrett, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Improvement Science, Duke University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics
Mark Sendak, MD, MPP, Population Health & Data Science Lead, Duke Institute for Health Innovation
Ganga Moorthy, MD, Global Health Fellow, Duke Pediatric Infectious Disease Program
Paige Nong, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Learn more and read a full transcript on our website.
Dan Gorenstein will moderate three one-on-one discussions featuring industry leaders and top officials from ONC, FDA, and HHS’ Office of Civil Rights over two plenary sessions, you can watch them here.
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In this special episode we reflect on a few of our favorite stories of 2023 and hear how they’re making a difference for patients and policymakers.
Guests:
Hannah Neprash, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Jami Snyder, MA, president and chief executive officer of consulting firm JSN Strategies
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One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals have adopted practices that discuss medical mistakes and offer support to the people who must cope with the often tragic consequences. We examine why experts are calling on the Biden Administration to make patient safety a national priority.
Guests:
Jack Gentry, patient
Naomi Kirtner and Jeff Goldenberg, patient’s family and Founders of Talia’s Voice
Tom Gallagher, MD, Director, UW Medicine Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety
Stephen Kuracheck, MD, Former Chief of Critical Care and Medical Director of Quality at Children’s Minnesota
Julie Morath, RN, Member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology’s Working Group on Patient Safety
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Congress banned most surprise medical bills back in 2020, with one major exception: ambulance rides. Most people agree that patients should be shielded from these unexpected charges. But who should pick up the tab instead? As state and federal policymakers grapple with that question, we delve into why finding a fair solution is harder than you’d think.
Guests:
Tara Bannow, Reporter, STAT
Precious Mae Clark, patient
Dia Gainor, Executive Director, National Association of State EMS Officials
Zach Gaumer, Principal, Health Management Associates
James Gelfand, JD President and CEO, ERISA Industry Committee
Bob Herman, Reporter, STAT
Pete Lawrence, Deputy Chief, Oceanside Fire
Butch Oberhoff, President, Texas EMS Alliance
Leslie Walker, Senior Reporter/Producer, Tradeoffs
Matt Zavadsky, At-Large Director, National Association of EMTs
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Health care leaders are spending more time and money trying to improve the way doctors and nurses talk with their patients, to build more trust. Are those efforts working? We eavesdrop on some difficult conversations between patients and providers, and meet researchers who are measuring the power of using just the right words.
This episode first aired in 2019 and remains as relevant as ever.
Guests:
Andrea Anderson, MD, Medical Director, Unity Health Care
Sumeera Baig, MD, Physician, R-Health
Calvin Chou, MD, Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Equity in Health and Healthcare, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hannah Herman, DO, Resident, The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education
Lauren Howe, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
Natalie Levinson, patient
Jeff Milstein, MD, Regional Medical Director, Penn Primary Care
Kathy Trow, MSN, APN-C, Nurse Practitioner, Penn Medicine
Jessika Welcome, mother of patient Natalie Levinson
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