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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was enacted nearly 20 years ago to make reporters gnash their teeth. Not quite,…
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How transparent is your state dental board when it comes to helping patients find out more about their dentists? In…
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In early February, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services advertised a telephone question-and-answer session intended for “non-press associated individuals.”…
Patient safety is a critically important topic for health care journalists. Yet collecting the data needed to report on it…
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I knew next to nothing about the fast-growing assisted-living industry when I started reporting in early 2013 on problem homes…
When Illinois awarded a $33 million contract to a high-priced PR firm to promote insurance coverage under the Affordable Care…
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This is Sunshine Week, a yearly celebration of open government. It’s held every year in the week that includes the…
Two rulings in one week in a case involving an Idaho hospital’s purchase of a physician group gave health care…
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In a victory for advocates of government transparency, a federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the government’s arguments for withholding…
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As Charles Ornstein pointed out, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that it will release payment information for individual physicians…