An Arm and a Leg: A Mathematical Solution for US Hospitals?
An immigrant mathematician is on a mission to save U.S. hospitals billions of dollars and improve the lives of doctors, nurses, and patients. At one hospital, it’s working.
An Arm and a Leg: A Health Policy Veteran Puts 2025 in Perspective
Two stories from Washington, D.C., give listeners a sense of what changes the Trump administration has been making to health policy, with 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Julie Rovner and Arthur Allen.
An Arm and a Leg: Why The Pitt Is Our Fave New Drama
An emergency room doctor says what the TV show The Pitt gets right about hospitals, including why theyre so crowded and the bills so high.
An Arm and a Leg: Winning a Two-Year Fight Over a Bogus Bill
How one Arm and a Leg listener stayed encouraged during a two-year fight over a bill she didnt owe.
An Arm and a Leg: Medical-Debt Watchdog Gets Sidelined by the New Administration
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is offline for now. Heres what that could mean for people with medical debt.
An Arm and a Leg: How Do You Deal With Wild Drug Prices?
An Arm and a Leg 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 Shkreli Awards 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 An Arm and a Leg is pushing for change with the American Medical Association and at the hospital where he works.
An Arm and a Leg: Revisiting Christmas In July
From the archives of An Arm and a Leg: 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 With Help From AI
Meet the tech worker on a quest to use artificial intelligence to combat denials for coverage from patients health plans.
An Arm and a Leg: Can Racism Make You Sick?
In this episode of An Arm and a Leg, host Dan Weissmann sits down with 窪蹋勛圖厙 News 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 Silence in Sikeston.
An Arm and a Leg: Baby Steps in the Fight Against Facility Fees
An extra $99 fee on top of a copay for a checkup didnt sit right with a listener. Turns out, state legislators across the country arent buying it either.
An Arm and a Leg: Dont Get Bullied Into Paying What You Dont Owe
In this episode of An Arm and a Leg, 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 Bill of the Month series, produced in partnership with NPR.
An Arm and a Leg: The Woman Who Beat an $8,000 Hospital Fee
In this episode of An Arm and a Leg, 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 Middlemans Middleman
Why are patients facing bigger bills than they expect for out-of-network care? In this episode of An Arm and a Leg, 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 An Arm and a Leg, 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
An Arm and a Leg is looking for listener stories about facility fees for a new project.
In this episode of An Arm and a Leg, 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 An Arm and a Leg, host Dan Weissmann tells a horror story. Instead of monsters and aliens, its about private health insurance companies and algorithms that call the shots on patient care.
