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Tell Your Story: 2013 Costs of Care Essay Contest Is Open!

Neel Shah
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$4000 in prizes for the best stories from patients, doctors, and nurses illustrating the importance of cost-awareness in healthcare.

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– judged by Andy Grove, Maureen Bisognano, David Goldhill, and Steven Brill. 

Press release  |  Read the stories  |  About the Contest

 

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$4000 in prizes for the best stories from patients, doctors, and nurses illustrating the importance of cost-awareness in healthcare.

– judged by Andy Grove, Maureen Bisognano, David Goldhill, and Steven Brill. 

Press release  |  Read the stories  |  About the Contest

 

costs of care essay Contest

Judges

Andy Grove, innovator, Time Magazine Man of the Year (1997)

Maureen Bisognano, registered nurse, President of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

David Goldhill, television executive, author of “Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father–And How We Can Fix It”

Steven Brill, journalist, author of Time Magazine’s “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us”

Rules

Entries should be 500-700 words and should be typed and double-spaced. Students are strongly encouraged to submit. 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 primarily seeking stories. The focus of the contest is not to suggest policy solutions.

E-mail submissions to contest@costsofcare.org are preferred, however entries may also be mailed to
Costs of Care
511 6th Ave, Box #13
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 Dates

Contest Deadline: December 1st, 2013

Finalists Announced: January 1st, 2014

Prize Winners Announced: January 15th, 2014

essay contest

Thank you to our partner sponsors

Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan | Association of American Medical Colleges

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