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medicare
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Polk Award recognizes reporting on unusual Medicare claims, reimbursements
AHCJ member Christina Jewett, a reporter at California Watch, was honored alongside her colleagues, Lance Williams and Steven K. Doig,…
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Berwick shares thoughts on media coverage of health care, reform
Don Berwick has worked with reporters as part of his jobs at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and, most recently,…
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Reuters shows how shell companies hide Medicare fraud in plain sight
Reporting for Reuters, Brian Grow and Matthew Bigg used an analysis of public data to investigate the practice of using…
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‘Doc fix’ flies in the face of rewarding quality, not quantity, of treatment
One of the last things that Congress did before finally getting out of town a few days before Christmas was…
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Americans unprepared to pay for long-term care
In the Chicago Tribune, Deborah Shelton examines how unprepared Americans are to pay for their own long-term care needs as…
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Aging in place becoming more popular, possible
In the latest installment in The Associated Press series on growing old in America, David Crary explores how the health…
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Medicaid programs slow to act against system exploiters
At ProPublica, senior reporters Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber have published the latest turn in their ongoing analysis of conflicts…
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‘Dual eligibles’ pingpong between programs, getting stuck along the way
The phrase “dual eligibles” has always been a mouthful for describing people old enough (or disabled enough) to be on…
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Texas psych clinics take Medicare’s millions without oversight
The Houston Chronicle‘s Terri Langford reports that for-profit outpatient psychiatric clinics in the state, most located around Houston, are collecting…
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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…