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health care costs
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For AHCJ members: Updated data about hospital charges to Medicare
With an update from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data showing what hospitals across the country charge Medicare…
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Health costs, journalism and transparency: One site opening door to price data
Here’s a resource for health care costs – and a creative journalistic model of crowdsourcing, data collection, mapping, reporting and…
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Will price transparency drive up health care costs?
Will increased price transparency in health care drive up costs? That’s what a health plan association executive suggested last week…
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Webcast will explore transparency in the cost of health care
On Jan. 1, many formerly uninsured Americans will have health insurance coverage and thus will be prepared to engage with…
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Give context, not equal time, to anecdotes in coverage of Health Policy
Drew Altman, president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, in a recent Politico op-ed, shared some thoughts on challenges in covering…
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Snapshot of state health spending yields some surprises
The Wall Street Journal and Louise Radnofsky did a nice package of interactive graphics and maps on state health spending. As…
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Premium shock: The story isn’t as simple as it seems
You’ve seen lots of stories – and you may well have written some – about how much the cost of…
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Boomers face delayed retirement, dwindling health coverage for retirees
For many baby boomers, retirement is a dream that’s slipping away. Several publications have looked at this issue over the…
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Potential stories about changes in health care delivery are abundant
Many of you probably saw the recent Sunday New York Times Magazine story about home- and community-based health care, called…
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Find evidence that insurers can – or can’t – rein in health care costs
Here’s a question that reporters on the aging beat should look into as the debate over Medicare rages on: Where’s…