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 DEADLINE: November 15th, 2011 send submissions and questions to
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Judges Peter Orzsag, former Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget
Dr. C. Everett Koop, former United States Surgeon General
Hon. Jennifer Granholm, former Governor of Michigan.
Dr. Susan Love, women's health and cancer research advocate
Dr. Alan Garber, health economist and Harvard University Provost
Prize DetailsCosts of Care is doubling the number of prizes this year. Two $1000 prizes will be awarded to health care providers and two $1000 prizes will be awarded to patients. New this year we are seeking stories that illustrate how cost-awareness leads to high value care. All submissions will be judged based on relevance to the topic of cost-awareness, eloquence, and compellingness. Stories need not be extreme. Routine, everyday examples of how cost-awareness are strongly encouraged.
-$1000 for a patient story that describes how cost-awareness lead to high value care or cost savings -$1000 for a health provider story that describes how cost-awareness lead to high value care or cost savings
-$1000 for a patient story that describes how lack of cost-awareness lead to an unexpectedly high bill, or difficulty figuring out how much a test or treatment would cost -$1000 for a health provider story that describes how lack of cost-awareness
lead to an unexpectedly high bill, or difficulty figuring out how much
a test or treatment would cost
Rules Entries must be no longer than 750 words and should be typed and double-spaced. Students are strongly encouraged to submit an anecdote. Entries will be judged based on the quality of the writing and the relevance of the anecdote to the topic of cost-awareness in medicine. We are seeking anecdotes about episodes of care. The focus of the contest is not to suggest policy solutions. E-mail submissions to
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are preferred, however entries may also be mailed to
Costs of Care Contest
511 6th Ave., Box 13th
New York, NY 10011
Finalists and winners will be announced according to the schedule below. Four care provider finalists and four patient finalists will be chosen. Care providers include doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, clinical assistants, health administrators and students of these professions. Patients include patients as well as their friends or family members, and students of non-clinical professions including college students. All finalist entries will be read and rank-ordered according to the above criteria by our high-profile judges. Four $1000 prize winners will be named -- two care providers and two patients. All submissions are subject to the Costs of Care Contest grant of rights agreement. Selected submissions will be published on the Costs of Care blog, and may receive regional and/or national media coverage. Key DatesContest Deadline: November 15th, 2011
Finalists Announced: December 15th, 2011
Prize Winners Announced: January 15th, 2012
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