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Insurance
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There’s more to surprise medical bills than patients’ horror stories
Surprise medical bills are not new but they certainly have become a big story nationwide. In most of these stories,…
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Is this home care project a model for caring for the frail, chronically ill?
As health insurers adopt population health strategies they find that home-bound patients are the most difficult to reach. Under fee-for-service…
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GAO confirms Center for Public Integrity’s findings on Medicare Advantage overspending
In a report last week, the U.S. Government Accountability Office confirmed what Fred Schulte and other journalists at the Center…
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Direct-to-consumer teleheath: The sector gets a new diagnosis
They say health care is local. But the convergence of the smartphone and telehealth is making health care ubiquitous. Virtual…
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New report finds wide variation in health care costs among states
Consumers in states with high health care costs spend more than twice as much for certain services than consumers in…
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Journalists explain how freelancers can add audio, video to boost pitches – and income #AHCJ16
Seeing Spike Lee’s 2006 documentary about how Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans was transformative for independent journalist Andrea King Collier.…
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Panel offers ideas on uncovering true costs of health care at #AHCJ16
For those of us covering health insurance, one of the best sessions at Health Journalism 2016 addressed the challenging issue…
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What reporters should know about GOP proposal to replace Obamacare
“Across state lines.” That’s shorthand for what many GOP politicians see as part of an acceptable replacement for the Affordable…
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Financial incentives for physicians may not be working as expected
One premise behind the formation of accountable care organizations is that physicians and other health care providers would have financial…
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How do you report a story buried within 8,000 documents? Well, there’s an app for that
Audrey Dutton knew it was coming. Someday, she thought, a treasure trove of documents would be unsealed. These were the…