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Health Policy
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The ACA and patient satisfaction: Does it improve care?
The ACA made many changes to Medicare. One of them involves linking part of hospital pay to patient satisfaction. In…
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Conference panel generates ACA resources, story ideas #ahcj15
Anyone who is moderating a session at an AHCJ conference is lucky to have AHCJ board member, Associated Press medical…
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Reporters offer state, local story ideas for covering ACA #ahcj15
The first day of Health Journalism 2015 featured a session “The ACA: Will it survive? And how to cover it…
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Maintaining Medicaid ‘bump’ a state-by-state endeavor
Medicaid pay rates for doctors in many states traditionally have been extremely low – so low that most physicians didn’t…
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HuffPost dives into public records on King v. Burwell
A key issue in King v. Burwell, the health care reform case argued before the Supreme Court in early March,…
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ACA changes on the way, CMS official says
We tend to focus on the Affordable Care Act as a law that simply gives more people health insurance –…
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Breaking down restaurant fees the way hospitals do
It’s not often that we can tell you something about health care prices and also make you laugh … but…
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2014 winners named in top health journalism awards
Soaring drug prices that make even copays unaffordable for many, an unchecked rise in robotic surgery, financial abuse revealed using…
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Health Journalism 2015 agenda covers gamut of health care
We have posted descriptions of nearly all of the panels planned for Health Journalism 2015 and it’s an agenda packed…
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Finding the full story behind hospital mergers, consolidations
Across the country, health systems are getting larger, gobbling up community hospitals or smaller chains. Some of this has to…