ClearHealthCosts
Bringing transparency to healthcare by telling people what stuff costs and helping them navigate the system. Journalists. Truth-tellers. Helpers. email jeanne@clearhealthcosts.com, find us clearhealthcosts.com
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- Covid surge, heads up. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/covid-...
- 1/2 Finding out health costs: Rich Eisenberg at @marketwatch.com does a tour of the territory, quoting me among others. I will say also that transparent health costs are ...https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-much-will-your-next-hospital-stay-cost-no-one-seems-to-know-new-rules-may-help-f7cd6171
- There's a rising tide of patients not paying medical bills, for a number of reasons. New, on the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/07...
- "Now, more than half of upper-income families—those earning more than $215,400 per year — vote Dem .. as more highly educated voters shift to the left. “ WaPo gift link. wapo.st/4lIJPVj
- Sharp turnaround by the feds proposes limits on skin substitutes for wound care, after signs that no limits would be imposed. New, on the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/07...
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- Lovely commencement address by my former colleague Jodi Kantor from the NYT, to Columbia grads. One of the best such talks I've seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=njFY...
- Doc appointments are hard to come by. What can you do? New, on the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/05...
- Grief, a powerful read by @rebeccasoffer.bsky.social @modernloss.bsky.social . time.com/7284451/grie...
- "Absolute despair" at NIH. www.washingtonian.com/2025/05/01/a...
- Who's surprised? Not me. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- Reposted by ClearHealthCostsDespite seeing several people I totally trust say this was real I still felt I had to verify it with my own eyes. And having done so I still can't believe it's real.
- How much does Plan B cost? from $0 to $49.99. We break it down for you, on the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/04...
- It can be really hard to find a therapist, let alone an in-network therapist. We don't give medical advice, but here are some options. New, on the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/04...
- is this for real? Did I hear someone say "grift"? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...
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- Hearing aids can now be sold over the counter, without an audiologist and all the complications surrounding that. But do they work? Longtime expert Katherine Bouton unpacks it all. On the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/01...
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- @insidehighered.com doing great reporting on student visa revocations. Spread the word. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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- New rules aimed at limiting skyrocketing costs and questionable clinical practice in wound care were delayed again today - meaning that questionable practices can continue. New, on the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/04...
- More winning.
- O yay. More tariffs.
- Winning.
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- Wound care: The deadline is April 13 for the proposed new regulations to go into effect, or to be delayed again. When Trump made a social media post disparaging the new regs, people started to ... wonder. On the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/03...
- Four therapy practices across the nation are driven to despair by insurers' refusal to pay bills. New, on the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/03...
- For realz? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...
- A group of medical practices is trying to organize against what one official called "heartbreaking" practices in wound care. New, on the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/03...
- AI helping therapists compose their notes for their records. What could go wrong? A lot, it turns out. New, on the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/03...
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- When President Trump made a social media post disparaging new pending regulations to rein in questionable practices in wound care and skin substitutes, people started to speculate this means the regs will be delayed indefinitely -- or killed. New, on the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/03...
- "The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the three liberal members to form a majority." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...
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- Reposted by ClearHealthCostsMany Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:
- Very smart piece by @juliaangwin.com on the media landscape, and how it might be improved. shorensteincenter.org/staff_bio/ju...
- Our coverage of the obscure world of wound care and skin substitutes, where money medicine is running wild, has attracted attention from HHS and the FBI, our analytics show us. My latest: clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/02...
- Repubs hearing from the electorate. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...
- New: The feds are investigating the world of skin substitutes and wounds that won't heal by themselves. On the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/02...
- Big Health execs and Trump's fundraisers. Not surprised. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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- Vital aid still frozen, despite court orders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...
- Georgia Repub faces crowd angry over Trump-Doge chainsaw at town hall. x.com/bluestein/st...
- The invaluable @joshtpm.bsky.social at @tpm.bsky.social explains. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white...
- Good to know. Fealty rewarded. "Justice Dept. Official Suggests Helping Trump Is a Higher Priority Than Criminal Allegations" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
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- Reposted by ClearHealthCostsJUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
- Vital reading right now: Federal employees talking about what's going on. Unbelievable. www.reddit.com/r/fednews/
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- City in crisis. This is what the new order holds. Who will suffer? Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/n...
- Good to know. wapo.st/3QizwcN
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- Reposted by ClearHealthCostsSo you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!
- "Patio." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/u...
- Must read. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
- Thursday night massacre. Repeating history, in a new way. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
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- Got immediate healthcare repercussions from the new admin? We wrote of regs caught in the regulatory freeze that seem to mean manufacturers and poorly trained clinicians are gonna keep making money unchecked, harming patients. Tell us stuff! here or jeanne@clearhealthcosts.com bit.ly/4hPceXA
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- ICYMI: Healthcare horrors! The new admin delayed regs that would do two things: 1. reduce skyrocketing Medicare costs for a little-known yet common procedure, and 2. reduce potential patient harm from same procedure. And yet .. New, on the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/02...
- Wealthy investor Bill Ackman joined a fight between UnitedHealth and a doctor who said United denied an overnight stay on a pre-authorized breast cancer surgery. New, on the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/02...
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- Patient harm. This treatment for wounds that won't heal, by lightly trained practitioners, shows skyrocketing costs for Medicare -- and also seem to increase hospitalization among older americans. New, on the blog. clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2025/02...
