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Reporting on how Catholic hospital mergers affect patient care
Nina Martin Nina Martin of ProPublica recently wrote about the growing number of health care mergers involving Catholic hospitals – and…
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Delving into cost reports reveals financial health of hospitals, amount of charity care they provide
Clifton Adcock Oklahoma Watch, a nonprofit investigative journalism team, recently published a two-part series on hospitals based on financial data obtained…
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New resources explain role of dental therapists
Dental therapists have the potential to expand access to oral health care, though opponents (such as the American Dental Association)…
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How I did it: Reporting on delays in newborn testing
Ellen Gabler The investigative team of Ellen Gabler, John Fauber and Mark Johnson at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel used data to uncover…
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Programs develop to manage most costly 1 percent of patients
As more health insurers begin covering the uninsured under the Affordable Care Act, they will assume the financial risk of…
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Series on income inequality explores the health consequences
The greatest public health problem is not heart disease. It’s not cancer. And it’s not mental health. It’s inequality. That’s…
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New AHCJ resource offers guidance for covering social determinants and disparities in health
The Association of Health Care Journalists has rolled out another Core Curriculum topic on its website. “Social determinants and disparities”…
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Congressional update at GSA touches on upcoming stories
What’s really happening with aging policy in Washington? At last week’s annual Gerontological Society of America Conference in New Orleans,…
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Medicare changes payments for outpatients, home health care
Late Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its final hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgical center payment schedule…
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HealthCare.gov issues affect Medicaid enrollment
Here’s another HealthCare.gov problem – and a workaround – that haven’t gotten much attention. People can apply for Medicaid (traditional or expanded)…
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