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Public records
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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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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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Ohio’s hospital transparency law under fire
Thanks are due to blogger and one-time hospital executive Paul Levy for drawing our attention to the Ohio hospital industry’s…
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Public hospitals, not nonprofits, shoulder burden of charity care
Writing in the Contra Costa Times, Sandy Kleffman reports that while nonprofit hospitals in the East Bay are given millions…
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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…
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Quake damage could cripple Calif. hospitals
In her series on earthquake preparedness at California hospitals, California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting senior reporter Deborah Schoch…
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Former Practitioner Data Banks official says HRSA ‘erroneously interpreting the law’
A former federal official criticized a decision by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration for removing the Public Use…
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Investigation finds chart falsification endemic in Calif. nursing homes
In a two-part series (one | two) in The Sacramento Bee, Marjie Lundstrom reveals the results into the widespread falsification…
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Journalists turn to Sebelius for access to National Practitioner Data Bank file
The Association of Health Care Journalists and five other journalism groups appealed to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius…
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Agency declines to restore public data
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration resisted demands by three major journalism organizations for the immediate restoration of a…