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Government
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Stat details failure of research institutions to submit required study reports
A Stat investigation has found that “prestigious medical research institutions have flagrantly violated a federal law requiring public reporting of study results, depriving…
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Gauging ‘success’ at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, created by the Affordable Care Act, is trying new ways of delivering health care and…
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Ms. Seegert goes to Washington
When the confirmation email arrived in my inbox late Friday afternoon, I had all but given up on obtaining press…
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AHCJ releases Medicare provider payment data broken down by state
Medicare pays doctors and other providers virtually everywhere in the United States, amounting to more than $70 billion in 2013…
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VA secretary addresses some of department’s challenges #ahcj15
More than 140 journalists at Health Journalism 2015 gathered early Friday to hear Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald – and to…
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Native American tribe wields sales tax to promote healthier eating
Hoping to encourage healthier eating habits, leaders of the Navajo Nation have imposed a potentially precedent-setting tax on junk food…
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Experts weigh in on covering the SCOTUS challenge
The Washington, D.C., chapter of the Association of Health Care Journalists had a session last week about the upcoming King v.…
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A problem with precision medicine: It’s not quite precise – at least not yet
At a conference last year, Michael Laposata, M.D., Ph.D., one of the nation’s best known pathologists, explained how clinical laboratories…
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Journalists’ coverage of prenatal screening uncovers big gaps in what we know about genetic testing
Last month, journalists from the New England Center for Investigative Reporting raised serious questions about prenatal genetic screening tests, saying…
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Hospital survey data updated, with changes
AHCJ has just updated its easy-to-use Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey data to include the…