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Webcast: How value-based insurance design breaks down financial barriers to care
Covering health care requires writing about the cost of care. Determining if costs are rising or falling and by how…
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Exploring the geography of violent death
Measured by rates of violent death, the most dangerous counties in the United States have rates that are more than…
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Going deep on hospital closures and their human impact
Pittsburgh’s dominant health system closed a hospital in the economically depressed town of Braddock four years ago and soon after…
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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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ACA rules force health insurers to increase spending on care delivery
A new report on how health insurers are complying with the medical loss ratio rules shows insurers spent more on…
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Reporting team scrutinizes Medicare Advantage
The Center for Public Integrity’s series unearthing potential fraud and waste under the Medicare Advantage program had little help —…
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Hospital survey data updated, with changes
AHCJ has just updated its easy-to-use Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey data to include the…
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Breaking down court rulings on Affordable Care Act subsidies
Even for those of us who cover the Affordable Care Act (ACA) more or less full time, July 22 was…
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What do you really know about the social determinants of health?
It’s hard to think clearly about Health Policy if you ignore the social determinants of health, that is, how each…
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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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