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Clinicians do not have the luxury to not care about costs
By Sarah Jorgenson In a large lecture hall of fellow clinicians-to-be, I was told that my job as a physician is not to be concerned with costs but rather to treat patients. My wrist, moving frantically...
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Patient Insights for Improving Primary Care Medicine
By Sydney Howland When I came into contact with Costs of Care, their mission to educate medical students and empower patients through interactive workshops and personal anecdotes enthralled me. The...
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N=1, my experience with cost, care and insurance
By Robert Fogerty, MD, MPH “You look nice today. People don’t come to chemo in suits very often.” The friendly and familiar receptionist mentioned as I was checking out, the always full jar of lemon...
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Cost-conscious Education Must Start From the Beginning
By Allan Joseph Pretty much every conversation I’ve ever had about working to change physician culture boils down to two words: “medical education.” That was especially true at the 2013 Lown Institute...
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Patients and their Caregivers Describe Consequences of Low Value Care, as...
[SUMMARY] Costs of Care, a nonprofit that helps patients and their caregivers deflate medical bills, has selected finalists in their annual essay contest. These stories, from every corner of the United...
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A Low-Tech Solution to Providing High-Value Care at the Bedside
By Chris Moriates, MD There is little doubt that over the next few years we will see a wave of increasingly sophisticated point-of-care tools to help clinicians determine the costs and relative value...
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Is That Really Necessary?
By Ann Robinow Attempting to alter the health care marketplace so provider decisions are based on patient value has shaped my career for the last 20 years. Often use of the health care delivery...
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Managing My Costs of Care
By Jay Warner Before losing my health insurance in 2009, it never occurred to me to be concerned about a little thing like a blood test. Since 1986 I’d been having three vials of blood drawn each year...
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Patient Education – An Overlooked Factor in the Cost of Care
By Anonymous There is a saying in the world of education, “You have to care to teach.” Why is it then in healthcare, a profession of and about caring, we do such a poor job of teaching our patients?...
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Training on Cost Decisions at the Bedside
By Nandita Mani and Elizabeth Oler Medical students are brilliantly frugal. And it’s no surprise — according to the AAMC, the average U.S. medical student incurs $170,000 of debt from medical...
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