2012 Essay Contest Finalists Announced!
For the third time, we asked patients, nurses, and physicians to send us anecdotes that illustrate the importance of cost-awareness in medicine. What was in it for them? A chance to shine a national spotlight on a big problem: doctors and patients have to make decisions in a vacuum, without adequate information about how those decisions impact the costs of care. Also in it for them was a chance to win one of four $1000 prizes. We received more than 150 submissions from all over the country – New York to California, Texas to North Dakota, Alaska to Oklahoma. We will be reviewing the...
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Patients and their caregivers are uniquely positioned to recognize inefficiency in the healthcare system but are seldom empowered with information they need to reduce harmful spending. With the help former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, former White House Budget Director Peter Orzsag, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, women’s health advocate Dr. Susan Love, and Harvard University Provost and health economist Alan Garber, Costs of Care launched an innovative essay contest this Fall aimed at elucidating both the challenges and opportunities to save patients’ money with routine,...
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