Sarah Kliff
Investigative and Health Care Reporter at The New York Times
Investigations and health policy for the @nytimes. I like reading your medical bills.
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1 week ago |
myheraldreview.com | Sarah Kliff
Seniors across the country are wearing very expensive bandages. Made of dried bits of placenta, the paper-thin patches cover stubborn wounds and can cost thousands of dollars per square inch. kAm$@>6 C6D62C49 92D 7@F?5 E92E DF49 “D<:? DF3DE:EFE6D” 96=A 46CE2:? H@F?5D 962=] qFE :? E96 A2DE 76H J62CD[ 5@K6?D @7 F?DEF5:65 2?5 4@DE=J AC@5F4ED 92G6 7=@@565 E96 >2C<6E]k^AmkAmq2?5286 4@>A2?:6D D6E 6G6C\C:D:?8 AC:46D 7@C ?6H 3C2?5D @7 E96 AC@5F4ED[ E2<:?8 25G2?E286 @7 2 =@@A9@=6 :?
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1 week ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Sarah Kliff |Katie Thomas
Share Seniors across the country are wearing very expensive bandages.Made of dried bits of placenta, the paper-thin patches cover stubborn wounds and can cost thousands of dollars per square inch.Some research has found that such “skin substitutes” help certain wounds heal.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Sarah Kliff |Katie Thomas
Many accountable care organizations, which track Medicare spending for large groups of patients, have alerted the government about overuse of skin substitutes. In March 2023, Dr. Danielle Whitacre, the chief medical officer of Bloom Healthcare in Colorado, and her colleagues complained to a Medicare claims processor about a baffling explosion in patients getting skin substitutes from mobile wound care clinics. Skin substitutes are typically not harmful.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Sarah Kliff |Katie Thomas
In 2023, companies billed Medicare for hundreds of thousands of urinary catheters that doctors never ordered. The next year, doctors collected billions from the government for pricey bandages that were sometimes unneeded. Medicare waste has wide-reaching consequences. Even if patients do not pay the bills themselves, more spending by the government insurance program can increase future premiums.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Sarah Kliff |Margot Sanger-Katz
Those ballot initiatives took more work, requiring more signatures to get onto the ballot. Activists decided the extra hurdle was worth it to entrench Medicaid in areas of the country that had been hostile to the program - thus giving it more protection in Washington. The politics of the Republican Party have changed since 2017, too, shifting from Tea Party austerity toward working class populism.
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RT @sangerkatz: If you want to understand the problem of "waste, fraud, and abuse" in federal health programs, you should read this great p…
Medicare spending on bandages made out of dried placenta skyrocketed to $10 billion last year, our new @nytimes story finds — possibly representing one of the largest cases of Medicare waste in the program's history. https://t.co/C33umYJavu
Some federal health clinics still cannot access their grant money — despite judges ordering an end to the funding freeze. One clinic in Virginia ran out of money, and had to close three health care facilities. https://t.co/Ci0SK24BwU