Jeanne Pinder
Looks like the Boston-New York rivalry is back, in a different form: this time, it’s over the price of a mammogram. Mammogram prices ranging from $500 to around $900 were quoted to Martha Bebinger, a reporter at WBUR, the NPR station in Boston. She wrote an article about costs of a mammogram for the the new HealthCareSavvy community over at […]
Juliet Linderman
There’s no question about it: IUD’s are making a comeback in a big way. Though roughly 5.5 per cent of women using contraception choose the IUD as opposed to 28 percent using birth control pills, IUD’s — intrauterine devices — are on the rise. Unlike birth control pills, which you must remember to take every […]
Jeanne Pinder
It’s an inspiring story: She has cancer. She was denied coverage for treatment by her insurance company, and she fought the decision — and won. One of our readers, Mary Schnack, told us her story about pain and triumph in the health-care system. She’s our heroine! “I have had endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS) eight times […]
Lisa Riordan Seville
A new study found patients pay an average of $1266 a month out-of-pocket for their care, causing them to cut back on everything from trips to the movies to groceries. What does this mean for you?
Jeanne Pinder
The marketplace for birth-control pills is pretty interesting, and it seems to change by the day. A woman we know who takes Ortho Tricyclen Lo got this letter not long ago from her insurance company, encouraging her to stop taking the brand-name pill (for which she has a $50-a-month copay) and to instead start taking […]
Jeanne Pinder
We got some love from Todd Park, the chief technology officer of the federal Department of Health and Human Services the other day. He was the featured speaker at a meeting of the Health 2.0 NYC group, co-sponsored with NYC Hacks/Hackers, as a result of an invitation I extended to him when we met at […]
Jeanne Pinder
A roundup of opinions from the Web on the HHS ruling that insurers must cover birth control: Planned Parenthood’s Bollywood video: The Planned Parenthood video supporting the HHS decision has gone viral. Steven Colbert objects to objections: The birth-control decision is the end to humanity as we know it. And what does a […]
Jeanne Pinder
Do you buy your BC abroad?
We have started to gather stories from patients who are un- and under-insured. Oddly enough, we heard more than one about women buying their birth control overseas. Read on to hear stories from women who have bough BC in places from Bangkok to France.
Jeanne Pinder
A friend who contributed to the Price of Birth Control map followed up with this email: “I wanted to add a couple things that wouldn’t fit on the form. I’ve just recently been having some drama around my pill prescription so this is the perfect time for me to be filling out this info! “I […]
Lisa Riordan Seville
Here at ClearHealthCosts.com, we do a lot of thinking about the price tag that comes along with health care. For women, birth control is a big part of that. About 37.2 million women between the ages of 15 and 44 practice some kind of contraception, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Around 28 percent them, or 10.7 […]
