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Using data to expose the risks of home births
Markian Hawryluk Markian Hawryluk, a health reporter with The Bend (Ore.) Bulletin and an AHCJ Regional Health Journalism Fellow, describes how he took advantage of new…
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New hospital data release allows year-to-year comparisons
With the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services release of new data showing what hospitals across the country charge Medicare for…
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Tips from Texas for covering Medicaid fraud, overtreatment
For the past two years, as a health writer for the Texas Tribune, Becca Aaronson has been covering the state’s…
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Bi-monthly newsletter focuses on health equity news, resources
Health Equity Resources is an impressively thorough roundup of the latest news, research, and events related to health disparities and…
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Costs keep going up for small businesses insuring their employees
Ideastream’s Sarah Jane Tribble took a look at how small businesses that voluntarily cover their workers could be in for…
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Similar Health Policy terms, but very different concepts
We’ve had a few members wonder whether “essential coverage” and “essential benefits” are one and the same. They aren’t –…
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Explaining health care costs, spending in the first quarter
So health spending is going up. Big time. But health costs are still growing at historically slow rates. And the…
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Covering Medicaid fraud and overtreatment
Becca Aaronson For the past two years, Texas Tribune health writer Becca Aaronson has been covering the state’s Medicaid orthodontic scandal.…
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AHCJ, HHS officials address appeal process for inadequate responses by PIOs
Reporters facing unreasonable delays or inadequate responses from media officials at an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and…
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Best place to age is Minnesota (again)
For the second straight year, Minnesota ranks as the best place for seniors, according to a new report, from the…
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