1+ hour, 37+ min ago   (1038+ words) AI and Patient Safety Health Journalism 2026 Recap ‘Price and Profits:’ An essential certification course What they learned is an important story in every market where a health insurance company has a lot of leverage over employers’ health insurance costs. It’s…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (167+ words) AI and Patient Safety Health Journalism 2026 Recap ‘Price and Profits:’ An essential certification course In the first entry in a series for STAT News, “Out of Pocket, Out of Reach,” reporter Bob Herman showed that since 1987, the cost of health…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (198+ words) Priced Out Association of Health Care Journalists The Connecticut Mirror spent more than a year investigating a troubled long-term care insurance industry that has burdened tens of thousands of seniors with steep rate increases and unstable coverage just as they…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (404+ words) AI and Patient Safety How I Pitched It Fellowships and Study Groups In 2024, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that health insurers added new — and questionable — diagnoses to 1.7 million Medicare Advantage (MA) members, generating approximately $7.5 billion in higher payments…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (792+ words) AI and Patient Safety How I Pitched It Fellowships and Study Groups Other benefits may result when health insurers and health care companies pursue vertical integration models that increase efficiency, collect more robust data, align incentives and allow patients more…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (819+ words) How I Pitched It Fellowships and Study Groups Millions of Americans will have trouble finding affordable health insurance this year. As a result, many of them will find it difficult or impossible to pay for health care for themselves and…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1281+ words) How I Pitched It Fellowships and Study Groups If you have health insurance as a freelancer — and you should — there’s a good chance you bought it through the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplace. The federal system offers options for…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (619+ words) How I Pitched It Fellowships and Study Groups Three years after Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, a significant change from that law will go into effect next month. The law gives the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (556+ words) How I Pitched It Fellowships and Study Groups Each of the five states aggregated claims and spending totals from Medicaid, Medicare Advantage and commercial insurers, providing a comprehensive view of payments in those states, explained researchers January Angeles and Jessica…...