July 1 marks a big day for Health Policy
Scott Hensley, on NPR’s Shots blog, has a nice rundown of the health care provisions that go into effect today, including the so-called tanning tax, high-risk insurance pools and the new healthcare.gov...
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Court ruling opens door for reporting on new law
Melissa Preddy of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism followed up on Monday’s court ruling that part of the federal health care reform law is unconstitutional. Photo by...
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Panel focuses on Health Policy anniversary
Support for Health Policy has been complicated by political rhetoric and the general public’s lack of knowledge about the Affordable Care Act, according to officials who spoke at last week’s AHCJ...
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Meeting the challenges of explaining Health Policy
Editor’s note: Today we introduce Joanne Kenen as AHCJ’s Health Policy topic leader. She will be writing blog posts, tip sheets, articles and gathering resources to help our members cover the complex...
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Explain elements of Health Policy through the eyes, stories of doctors
In these posts about covering Health Policy, I usually don’t point to the big national dailies because a lot of people have already read those stories but a recent New York Times piece, “As...
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CLASS Act is gone but long-term care problem remains
The ill-fated CLASS Act is gone. What’s not gone is the problem of how to provide long-term care to the millions of disabled and/or elderly people who need it – numbers that will only grow as the baby...
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Growth of for-profit hospices ripe for coverage
Given the recent spate – some good, some pretty muddy, and one I think pretty eye-opening – of articles about the growth of for-profit hospices, it’s probably worth taking a look at the issue,...
View ArticleReuters shows how shell companies hide Medicare fraud in plain sight
Reporting for Reuters, Brian Grow and Matthew Bigg used an analysis of public data to investigate the practice of using shell companies to defraud Medicare of millions while staying a step or two ahead...
View ArticleShare your thoughts on database design for tracking pharma payments to doctors
Curtis Brainard of Columbia Journalism Review reminds reporters that their input is needed on the design of a federal database that will track payments from drug and device makers to doctors....
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Women’s health and the ACA: Look beyond contraception
If you have been listening to the contraception debate in Washington (sort of hard to avoid, isn’t it?), you may be under the impression that preventive health for women equals contraception. Or...
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