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Dan Weissmann

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As seen in: An Arm and a Leg, Medium, MSN, NPR, PBS News Hour - Health, Chicago Tribune, Substack, Patch, The Star-Ledger, South Florida Sun Sentinel, University of South Florida and
Host @armandalegshow. The most fun you might have while also getting super-mad. Also, useful.
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How to Fight a Health Insurance Denial With a Little-Known Tool (from ProPublica’s "Paper Trail")

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By Dan Weissmann Verified
| KUOW-FM (Seattle, WA) Verified
After her husband L was hospitalized for a severe mental health crisis, Teressa barely had a moment to breathe before the health insurance denials started coming in, burying their family in medical debt. But Teressa’s a fighter, and an organized one at that — ready to endure months of back and forth until she stumbled on a "secret door" to reversing her husband’s insurance denials: the external review.
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The Prescription Drug Playbook (Full Version)

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By Dan Weissmann Verified, Emily Pisacreta, Ellen Weiss
| KUOW-FM (Seattle, WA) Verified
While we’re busy working on some big projects this summer, we’re re-releasing some of our most ambitious and useful reporting to date. Last year, we set out on a mission: Collect all the best advice about what to do when your prescription drugs cost more than you can afford. Our listeners wrote to us about their experiences getting around this most demoralizing — and distinctly American — problem in order to get the medicine they need.
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The Chatbot Will See You Now: Big Tech In Therapy (from Organized Money)

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By Dan Weissmann Verified
| KUOW-FM (Seattle, WA) Verified
One place you might assume is safe from prying ears is your therapy session. But as more therapists struggle to negotiate with insurers, they’re turning to tech middlemen like BetterHelp and Headway that promise to take care of the insurance admin and match them with patients. And these companies are sometimes recording and transcribing your sessions — and then turning around and sharing that data with social media companies and investors.
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