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Personal Stories

37th is better than 149th: Experience working in Kampala, Uganda

Hi all- I’m Sara, the new summer intern at change:healthcare. I’m only two weeks in, but it has been great so far! Katrina asked me to write a blog post about anything my heart desired involving healthcare. So, I’ve decided to share some of my experiences from the last four weeks I spent doing medical [...]

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Blind Faith in Your Insurer – Not a Good Idea

I have learned not to put complete blind faith in my Insurer. I do NOT blindly pay outstanding balances from providers and assume that my Insurer processed the claim properly, and neither should you as this story will show. Even though I’m a pretty savvy healthcare consumer (this IS what I do for a living [...]

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Live from Surgery Part 3

Went for the third of the four surgeries for varicose veins in my legs. Tweeted the whole procedure again (see below). And since this procedure was soooo much more graphic, I got the pix and video to go with it. To bring everyone up to speed, the first two surgeries were laser ablation from the [...]

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Live from Surgery – part 2

The tweets (messages on twitter) was so popular last time, I did it again for the follow up laser ablation surgery done on the back of my legs for varicose veins. You can catch the first installment here if you missed it.  And once again, I went through the trouble of reverse flowing the tweets [...]

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Why We Do This and Post-Op Update

First off, thanks for all of the concern and support from so many people over the past few days WRT my surgery. It seems I’m telling people things and repeating myself and I hate to bore anyone, so I’m putting this together to give folks the details and use my own experience as a personal [...]

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Live from the Operating Room

Had a bit of outpatient surgery done on my legs today. Laser ablation on my legs to eliminate varicose veins. Basically they numb the site, locate the vein using ultrasound, insert a fiber optic cable and cauterize the veins closed at the faulty junction. I was awake and on no drugs for the whole procedure. [...]

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Robert and MHIKM featured on CNN

Check out Robert’s story and My Healthcare Is Killing Me featured on CNN’s Empowered Patient.
(Click on the story title in green to view the video!)

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History Repeats Itself in Healthcare

Great article from a freelance writer in The Morning Call. Richard has some of the ledgers from NY and Pennsylvania banks the 1950s to 1960s showing how household expenses were distributed. Of particular note is that the family paid all of their medical bills in cash. When someone came down with a more serious illness, [...]

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Then a Hero Comes Along…

We’ve got a hero in our midst.
Well, we always knew he was a neat guy and great boss, but now he’s an official, bona fide hero.
The Nashville Business Journal has just named our own Christopher Parks one of a handful of Healthcare Heroes. In a market like Nashville that arguably has been a healthcare [...]

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change:healthcare meets up with Cover America

The best thing about this job is that we get to meet some really great people. Today we met some outstanding folks who are going to make a difference.
Cover America made a stop right here in Nashville today and a few of the change:healthcare team had a chance to catch up with them. The cross [...]

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