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Dan Gorenstein

Senior Reporter

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Dan Gorenstein is the former senior reporter for Marketplace’s Health Desk, covering the business of healthcare.

Prior to Marketplace, Dan spent more than 11 years at New Hampshire Public Radio. He got his start in journalism at the Chicago Reporter, an investigative journal that examines race and class disparities in the Chicago area. He’s won numerous national and local awards, including the Society of Professional Journalist Sigma Delta Chi investigative reporting award.

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Victims of Orlando mass shooting struggle to pay medical bills

by Dan Gorenstein
Jun 23, 2016
The hospital system expects to pick up more than $1 million in costs.
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Feds make arrests in alleged Medicaid, Medicare scheme

by Dan Gorenstein
Jun 22, 2016
The federal government estimates it loses 12 percent of Medicare spending and about 10 percent of Medicaid to fraud and other improper payments.
A former health clinic in Brooklyn connected to the  alleged fraudulent billing scheme run by  Aleksandr Pikus.
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Why it's still difficult for hospitals to share patient data

by Dan Gorenstein
Jun 20, 2016
The infrastructure to deliver on the promise of information sharing is there, but business interests don't always align.
Sharing data seems like a given when it comes to patient care, but it's not always so easy. 
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Big smiles in Vermont over dental therapy

by Dan Gorenstein
Jun 20, 2016
The state's governor recently authorized the practice.
Vermont joins Minnesota as the second state to develop a dental therapy program.
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When it comes to trauma care, where you live determines if you live

by Dan Gorenstein
Jun 17, 2016
Many hospitals can't handle those who are victims of mass violence.
Angel Santiago arrives to speak to the media from Florida Hospital about being shot in the Pulse gay nightclub terror attack in Orlando, Florida.
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Health economists diagnose the Affordable Care Act

by Dan Gorenstein
Jun 13, 2016
The American Society of Health Economists begins its biennial conference this week. It's like Woodstock — for health geeks.
Felue Chang, insured under a plan through the Affordable Care Act, receives a checkup from Dr. Perla Del Pino-White at the South Broward Community Health Services clinic in Hollywood, Florida.
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Insurance executives are using data to help curb opioid abuse

by Dan Gorenstein
Jun 7, 2016
A new study says one way to stop "doctor shopping" is to track the pharmacies where people are buying these drugs.
Jackson, 27, who said he is addicted to prescription medication, lies passed out in a public library in New London, Connecticut. 
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Deals aimed at reining in costs of cancer drugs show promise

by Dan Gorenstein
Jun 6, 2016
Some manufacturers are willing to tie drug price to performance.
Dr. Julie Brahmer (R) and Katie Thornton review PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans of a patient being treated at the Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland. 
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One way to cut medical errors: keep patients at home

by Dan Gorenstein
Jun 3, 2016
It's a 'paradigm shift in medicine,' doctor says, with its own set of challenges.
It's a complicated relationship between patient and provider in the hospital at home program; if enough patients return to Mt. Sinai within 30 days, the hospital will be penalized.  
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U.S. death rate increases for the first time in a decade

by Dan Gorenstein
Jun 1, 2016
A spike in white mortality could be driving this larger death trend.
This is one of just a few times in the past 25 years the death rate has gone up.
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