‘An Arm and a Leg’: Host Dan Weissmann talks price transparency on ‘Axios Today’
As we settle into the new year, we have two small doses of good news.
First, a new federal rule could help cut through one health care issue. Host Dan Weissmann talked about the rule which requires hospitals to make public the prices they negotiate with insurers in a short conversation with his former public-radio colleague, Niala Boodhoo, for the daily-news podcast Axios Today.
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You ll find more detail on that rule in this story from reporter Celia Llopis-Jepsen, whose reporting about a $50,000 air ambulance ride formed the core of a recent episode about how consumers get squeezed by insurers on one side and providers on the other.
COVID-19 vaccines are coming to Kansas nursing homes soon, but family visits likely remain months away
COVID-19 poses such dire risks to older people in nursing homes that even vaccines won’t guarantee a quick end to their pandemic isolation.
Tens of thousands of workers and residents at Kansas long-term care facilities will get vaccinated over the next three months. But families aching to visit after such a long separation may not have easy access to their loved ones for several more months at least.
“We will not be clicking our fingers and returning to normal,” said William Hanage, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard University.