Martha Bebinger
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To Beat Heroin Addiction, A Turn To Coaches
A one-year pilot project in Gosnold, Mass., provides recovering addicts with daily, sometimes hourly, help from a recovery coach.
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Mass. Inches Toward Health Insurance For All
The latest analysis shows that Massachusetts is close to having most of its eligible residents insured, some eight years after Gov. Mitt Romney signed its landmark state law. But a failed website has delayed the processing of applications, and some of those waiting may yet decide not to buy health plans.
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Mass. Patients Can ‘Shop’ For Health Care — At Least In Theory
Part of the state's health care cost control law requires hospitals and doctors tell patients how much things cost, if they ask.
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How Much Is That X-Ray? Still Hard To Say, Even In Massachusetts
A new state law requires price transparency, but it is still a days-long quest for one reporter to find out how much a simple back X-ray costs.
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Five Lessons From Massachusetts About Obamacare Rollout
Health reform in Massachusetts -- also known as "Romneycare" -- had a messy start in late 2006, but the state figured out how to make sure nearly everyone has insurance coverage.
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Don Berwick’s Newest Phase: Candidate, But Still Dr. Quality
The former acting administrator of CMS, now running for governor of Massachusetts, explains his "Letter to the People of England," a call for continuous learning to improve quality within Britain's National Health Service.
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Moving People Home After Nursing Home Stay Is Complicated
A program aimed at getting people out of nursing homes and back in their own homes is off to a slow start. Organizers say it's a challenge to find out which services each person needs, from meals delivered to a whole new apartment.
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Patients Lead The Way As Medicine Grapples With Apps
Health apps are turning smartphones and tablets into exercise aides, blood pressure monitors and devices that transmit an EKG. But the explosion of apps is way ahead of tests to determine which ones work.
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Boston Marathon Survivor Has Long Road Ahead
Marc Fucarile is one of the last two survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing to be released from the hospital. He knows he will get some compensation from Boston's One Fund, but he wonders if it will be enough.
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How Much For An MRI? $500? $5,000? A Reporter Struggles To Find Out
A health reporter tries to solve the mystery of her migraines with a doctor-recommended imaging test, but trying to find out the real cost of that test induces headaches of its own.
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Stuart Altman’s Huge Challenge: Bring Down Mass. Health Costs
The health economist and former presidential adviser is leading a board overseeing the state's cost-control law.
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Massachusetts Passes Health Cost Control Bill
The Massachusetts Legislature passed the next phase of its ongoing attempt to reform the health care system: sweeping cost control legislation.
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