Past Contest Entries

Super Utlizers

This ground-breaking television investigation puts a face on the most expensive public health problem in Colorado — a little known group of extremely costly Medicaid patients’ nicknamed “super utilizers.” FOX31 Denver Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne acquired a list of patients who cost taxpayers millions of dollars a year even though they were not critically ill. He spent months balancing privacy rights with the public’s right to know. In the end, Mark Whitney’s story spoke for them all.

Place:

No Award

Year:

  • 2014

Category:

  • Public Health (large)

Affiliation:

FOX31 Denver

Reporter:

christopher j halsne, investigative reporter (with Isaias Medina, Investigative videographer/editor)

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