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Right to know
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Journalism organizations ask HRSA to clarify how it will exercise restrictions
The Association of Health Care Journalists and five other journalism organizations asked federal health officials this week to specify how…
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AHCJ objects to CMS meeting privately with investors
Responding to a report that federal health officials met in private with Wall Street investors, AHCJ leadership sent a letter…
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Secrecy around data bank protects ‘Practitioner No. 222117’
Alan Bavley of The Kansas City Star provides us with a stark illustration of why new restrictions on the use…
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Florida hospitals sidestep state constitution, keep records under wraps
Writing for BrowardBulldog.org, an independent investigative news site serving South Florida, Amber Statler-Matthews reports that hospitals are going to what…
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AHCJ asks Supreme Court to permit broadcast of Health Policy arguments
AHCJ has asked Chief Justice John G. Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court to permit live audio and video coverage…
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Numbers reveal how often, or how rarely, states check doctors’ disciplinary records
How often does your state medical board search doctors in the National Practitioner Data Bank? Surprisingly not often, according to…
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Agency’s restrictions on data about disciplined doctors continue to get attention
The Kansas City Star and The Sacramento Bee ran editorials over the weekend to denounce the recent decision by the…
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Journalism groups protest HRSA restrictions to Sebelius
The Association of Health Care Journalists and six other journalism organizations on Thursday formally protested the Obama administration’s new restrictions…
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Agency re-posts National Practitioner Data Bank file, but restrictions draw fire
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration today republished the public version of the National Practitioner Data Bank, after intense…
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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…