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Housing and health: Finding stories and getting the reporting right
Megan Sandel, M.D., M.P.H., an expert on the impact of housing on child health, says journalists would do well to…
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Building transparency in health care costs
Lisa Pickoff-White Joel Withrow Jeanne Pinder Anybody who has ever built software knows how tricky it can be (hello, HealthCare.gov!).…
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Clearing up confusion about ”˜dual eligibles’
Liz Seegert Dual eligibles are low-income elderly or disabled people jointly enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid. The distinctions are sometimes…
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Six things to remember when reporting on health care costs
Health care costs lack transparency and are wildly variable, not just from region to region but sometimes from block to…
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Is your community fighting tooth decay with school-based dental sealant programs?
Have you visited a school-based dental sealant program in your state or community? There may be a good story there.…
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2014 class of AHCJ-National Library of Medicine fellows chosen
Eight journalists have been named to this year’s class of AHCJ-National Library of Medicine fellows. The fellowship program was created to…
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Papers collaborate to explore effects of hospitals fleeing inner cities
Lillian Thomas Hospitals in the U.S. have been abandoning inner cities for years. By 2010, the number of urban hospitals…
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$200,000 grant strengthens project-based reporting fellowship
The Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, the educational arm of the Association of Health Care Journalists, has been…
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How one reporting team used public records to find questionable Medicare Advantage spending
Fred Schulte Medicare billing records are all the rage. Almost every day, it seems, there’s a new article about doctors…
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New AHCJ board seated for 2014-15
Charlotte Sutton, senior editor/health and politics for the Tampa Bay Times, and Tony Leys, a staff writer for the Des Moines Register,…