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How one reporting team used public records to find questionable Medicare Advantage spending
Fred Schulte Medicare billing records are all the rage. Almost every day, it seems, there’s a new article about doctors…
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Tennessean reporter investigates complaints over Medicaid dental provider
Tom Wilemon Quite a few folks in Tennessee are upset right now with DentaQuest, the dental benefits company contracted to…
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Extensive document requests yield true cost of Illinois™ PR campaign for insurance coverage
Carla K. Johnson Carla K. Johnson, an AHCJ board member and Chicago-based Associated Press medical writer, describes the steps…
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Tiptoeing into Medicare data
The volume of public data on our health care system keeps growing and growing. AHCJ board member and veteran health…
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Datasets: Reform by the Numbers
As part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s efforts to monitor the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on…
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Reporter takes listeners to charity dental clinic to hear from patients
Katie Hiler KBIA Mid-Missouri Public Radio listeners were recently offered an insightful report on the problems poor adults in the state…
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Covering heart disease and older adults
Liz Seegert Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the U.S. As with many other chronic conditions,…
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Covering premium rate increases for 2015? Check out these resources first
Joseph Burns As the nation’s health insurers file rate requests with state insurance departments, the news about health insurance premium increases is…
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Undocumented immigrants struggle for access to health care
Tammy Worth When the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, there was a lot of talk about who would be…
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Reporting on the ACA in rural Kentucky
Laura Ungar Kentucky received national attention when it became the only Southern state to fully embrace the Affordable Care Act…