An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg is a podcast about why health care costs so freaking much and what we can (maybe) do about it. If you’ve ever been surprised by a medical bill, you’re in good company. But as our team of seasoned journalists has learned from years of rep

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A whole book about fighting effed-up medical bills? Yes, please.

Posted June 30, 202100:19:04

For years, at ProPublica, Marshall Allen has been exposing health care grifters. (He’s our kind of guy.) Now, he's written a book … about how to...

Want to write a killer letter to insurance? Meet Jeannine.

Posted June 9, 202100:12:55

Health care insiders get stupid medical bills too. One of them taught us how to write an insurance appeal—like the one that saved her son $14,000....

Mini-episode: One guy skirts a medical-bill trap, and shares the secret.

Posted May 19, 202100:07:24

When Adam Woodrum's insurance denied a claim for an ER bill, he sent his story to NPR... because he happened to KNOW how to deal with it. And he figured...

Why picking the right insurance is so hard (bonus/encore)

Posted April 28, 202100:19:20

How hard is it to pick the best health insurance? ECONOMISTS find it hard. Including one who has studied the question, "How hard can it be to pick a...

Programming note: We're working on some cool new stuff.

Posted April 7, 202100:01:34

... and it's gonna take us a little while to get it ready for you— maybe a couple months. Meanwhile, we'll have little updates for you here and there.......