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Medicare providers get reinstated when feds fail to attend hearings
Using data obtained through a public records request, Associated Press reporter Kelli Kennedy (@kkennedyap) reviewed federal Medicare fraud reports from…
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Quake damage could cripple Calif. hospitals
In her series on earthquake preparedness at California hospitals, California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting senior reporter Deborah Schoch…
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Rising medical debt spawns problems, fosters solutions
Kelley Weiss, of the California HealthCare Foundation’s Center for Health Reporting, dug deep into the rising mountain of medical debt…
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String of errors made Stanford patient data public
In The New York Times, Kevin Sack traces the series of errors and lapses in judgement that led to a…
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Behind Oklahoma’s nation-leading access-to-care problems
In February, the New England Journal of Medicine ranked Oklahoma as the worst when it came to access to medical…
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Fauber finds ‘failed back surgery syndrome’ after off-label use of Medtronic’s Infuse
John Fauber follows up his previous investigations into the myriad problems and conflicts of interest surrounding Medtronic’s Infuse product with…
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Dartmouth Atlas report shows little improvement in readmissions
In the National Journal, Maggie Fox explains a new Dartmouth Atlas Project report (PDF) which demonstrates that, despite the looming…
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Investigation finds chart falsification endemic in Calif. nursing homes
In a two-part series (one | two) in The Sacramento Bee, Marjie Lundstrom reveals the results into the widespread falsification…
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Health stories win at ONA for investigations, multimedia
The Online News Association has honored two of this year’s bumper crop of excellent health pieces with top honors in…
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Cash-strapped Ill. goes after hospitals’ nonprofit status
A New York Times article written by Bruce Japsen, an independent journalist writing for the Chicago News Co-Op, digs into…