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The State of the Patient with Terry Wilcox

Patients Rising 4 Episodes Oct 6, 2026

Host Terry Wilcox, co-founder of Patients Rising, examines the real struggles patients face with the healthcare system, from denial letters and copays to unexpected bills. She brings on patients who are fighting the system, along with doctors, biotech founders, regulators, and lawmakers who have the power to change it. The show discusses how free markets can drive innovation while safety nets catch those in need, keeping both accountable without corporate spin or talking points.

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Summit Highlights: Alzheimer's Through a Family's Eyes Oct 6, 2026 00:32:30 Chad Fink was fifty-one when he asked his wife which exit to take, on a drive to his grandson's soccer game he had made a hundred times. The next signs were a missed mortgage payment and a missed car payment, from the man who had handled the family finances for their entire marriage. When he told a neurologist he thought he had dementia, he was told he was too young.A year and a second neurologist

It Doesn't Have to Be This Way: The 2026 Rise Awards Sep 22, 2026 00:26:38 Meg Didier was born with half a working heart. When she talks about three years, she doesn't mean a regulatory timeline. She means whether she's there for her daughter's kindergarten graduation, and whether she can put off a transplant a little longer. Three years is how much she says one policy idea can take off the wait for treatments for patients like her — and the economist who designed it is

Under Penalty of Perjury Sep 9, 2026 00:33:37 A federal program called 340B lets many of the country's largest nonprofit hospitals buy outpatient drugs at deep discounts — 25%, 50%, sometimes 70% off — on the promise that the savings go to caring for low-income and vulnerable patients. In 2024, 340B moved more than $81 billion. But hospitals aren't required to show where those savings are used, and no patient is ever told the discount touched

Built in Our Name: PDABs and the Patient Truth Aug 25, 2026 00:24:12 Patients were promised affordability. Prescription Drug Affordability Boards have been operating for seven years — so have they saved a single patient a single dollar? Terry Wilcox talks with Tiffany Westrich-Robertson, Vanessa Lathan, and Bridget Dandaraw-Seritt about what these boards actually cap, who actually benefits, and the number that scored one woman's life at 0.13.SHOW NOTES:Patients wer

The Long Goodbye: A Personal Story Aug 11, 2026 00:33:05 They call Alzheimer's the long goodbye. But a goodbye is something you get to say.This episode is different. It's personal.Terry's stepmother Sandy spent forty years at the Colorado Hospital Association, where she was Director of Education and Member Services. She started forgetting things at fifty-eight. Her responsibilities were taken away one at a time until there was nothing left to take. She

The Patch in the Pipeline Jul 28, 2026 00:18:49 The most common cancer in the world doesn't show up on a scan. It shows up in your bathroom mirror.Basal cell carcinoma gets waved off as "just skin cancer" — five million new cases a year, and a system so backed up that millions wait months for the standard surgery. In this episode, Terry follows one cancer through four very different lives: Kay Frazer, a retired dentist from Texas who spotted he

The Person Behind the Patient Jul 14, 2026 00:29:39 Four advocates, four conditions, four corners of the country — and one system built to wear patients down. Meet the people behind the patient.Every patient is a person first — somebody with a job, a family, a garden, a beagle they walk in the morning. Then something happens, and suddenly they're navigating prior authorizations, step therapy, and specialty pharmacy phone trees.In the debut episode

Introducing State of the Patient with Terry Wilcox Jul 9, 2026 00:00:56 Every patient has a number nobody warned them about — a denial letter, a copay, a bill that shouldn't exist. State of the Patient starts there. Host Terry Wilcox, co-founder of Patients Rising, talks to the patients fighting the system and the doctors, researchers, biotech founders, and policymakers who can actually change it.Free markets innovate. Safety nets catch people. Both have to coexist fo

The State of the Patient with Terry Wilcox

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