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Reporters must listen to learn, accurately report about the experience of aging
How do people feel about growing older? You might think this is a much-examined subject in the media. It’s not.…
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Tulsa World investigates billing, compensation at ambulance utility
The Tulsa World‘s Ziva Branstetter has, for months now, been doggedly investigating the billing practices of the Emergency Medical Services…
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HHS responds to questions about enforcement of NPDB restrictions
Journalists who name troubled physicians in their stories after downloading a public version of the National Practitioner Data Bank do…
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Ranking may lead to sources for reporting on aging
Health reporters covering the aging beat might be interested in which hospitals offer the best geriatric services, according to recent…
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Whistleblower suits form basis for reporting on for-profit hospices
Jordan Rau Jordan Rau of Kaiser Health News has turned a sharp eye on for-profit hospices during the past year,…
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AP puts numbers on the prescription drug epidemic
The Associated Press’ Chris Hawley has worked through the latest numbers on the prescription painkiller boom, helping to illustrate the…
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AHCJ urges Joint Commission to release inspection results
The Association of Health Care Journalists has called upon The Joint Commission to make public its hospital accreditation surveys and…
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AHCJ urges Joint Commission to release inspection results
The Association of Health Care Journalists has called upon The Joint Commission to make public its hospital accreditation surveys and…
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Understand how Supreme Court’s possible decisions will affect seniors
Older Americans have a lot at stake as the Supreme Court considers the future of the Affordable Care Act, and…
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How health care price fixing works in Maryland
As part of her series in National Journal, Margot Sanger-Katz explains how four decades of health care price controls have…
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