Top Journalists in Hospitals
Bob Herman STAT
Business of health care reporter at STAT who covers hospitals and insurers with deep, data-driven reporting on how money flows through systems and impacts patients. Specialties: Hospitals, health insurers, hospital finance, consolidation/M&A, pricing and billing practices.
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Tara Bannow STAT
STAT hospitals and insurance reporter known for scrutinizing hospital finances, debt collection practices, and investor activity in care delivery. Specialties: Hospital finance and operations, medical debt collection, private equity in provider care, hospital-insurer contracts.
Alex Kacik Modern Healthcare
Senior reporter at Modern Healthcare focused on hospital operations and finance, frequently explaining how operational choices affect performance and care. Specialties: Hospital operations, supply chain, legal and finance trends, construction/strategic growth.
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Caroline Hudson Modern Healthcare
Modern Healthcare senior finance reporter who tracks hospital balance sheets, mergers, and how market shifts move system strategy. Specialties: Hospital and health system finance, deals/M&A, payer mix and revenue trends.
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Kara Hartnett Modern Healthcare
Modern Healthcare health disparities reporter mapping where and why communities struggle to access hospital care — and what systems are doing about it. Specialties: Health equity, access to hospital care, quality outcomes, social drivers of health.
Harris Meyer KFF Health News
KFF Health News correspondent who reports on hospitals, billing practices and policy shifts shaping care delivery and patient costs. Specialties: Hospitals and health systems, billing and surprise charges, Medicare/Medicaid policy, antitrust and consolidation.
Jordan Rau KFF Health News
Senior correspondent at KFF Health News known for authoritative reporting on hospital quality measures and Medicare’s incentive programs. Specialties: Hospital quality and safety, Medicare penalties, ratings/metrics, nursing homes.
Julie Appleby KFF Health News
Veteran KFF Health News senior correspondent covering costs, coverage and how hospital policies affect consumers. Specialties: Hospital and provider policy, pricing and transparency, insurance coverage and costs.
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Brett Kelman KFF Health News
KFF Health News correspondent whose investigations into state‑sanctioned hospital monopolies and charity care have driven scrutiny and reforms. Specialties: Hospital monopolies and market power, charity care and billing, patient safety and access.
Noam N. Levey KFF Health News
Senior correspondent at KFF Health News leading award‑winning coverage of medical debt and hospitals’ financial practices. Specialties: Medical debt, hospital charity care policies, consolidation and consumer impact.
John Tozzi Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News reporter covering hospitals, insurers and policy with a business lens, frequently breaking news on major players’ finances and strategies. Specialties: Hospitals and insurers, health policy, investigations into PBMs and reimbursement; health system strategy.
Anna Wilde Mathews The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal health reporter who tracks reimbursement and payer-provider dynamics that shape hospital revenues. Specialties: Health insurers and reimbursement, hospital-insurer dynamics, Medicare Advantage.
Reed Abelson The New York Times
New York Times reporter focused on the business of health care, including hospitals’ finances and how payment incentives affect care. Specialties: Business of healthcare, hospitals and insurers, patient costs and billing.
Sarah Kliff The New York Times
Investigative health reporter known for high‑impact work on hospital billing and pricing practices that has prompted policy and hospital changes. Specialties: Hospital pricing and ER billing, surprise bills, price transparency and patient financial harm.
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Christina Jewett The New York Times
New York Times investigative reporter covering the FDA and hospital safety issues tied to devices and clinical practices. Specialties: Hospital safety and regulation, FDA oversight of devices used in hospitals, infection control.
Dave Muoio Fierce Healthcare
Fierce Healthcare staff writer on the hospitals beat, regularly reporting on margins, capital plans, workforce and system strategy. Specialties: Hospital finance and policy, margins and labor, deals and partnerships, digital health in systems.
Rebecca Pifer Healthcare Dive
Healthcare Dive senior reporter whose payer beat frequently examines how reimbursement and policy changes affect hospital finances. Specialties: Health insurers and policy, payer-provider contracting, hospital margin impacts of coverage trends.
Susanna Vogel Healthcare Dive
Healthcare Dive staff reporter covering hospital performance, restructurings and trends shaping provider operations. Specialties: Hospital operations and performance, nonprofit finances, closures and restructurings, workforce.
Mackenzie Bean Becker’s Hospital Review
Managing editor at Becker’s Hospital Review overseeing clinical coverage, including hospital safety, quality and infection control. Specialties: Clinical leadership, patient safety/quality, infection control within hospitals.
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Susan Morse Healthcare Finance News
Managing editor at Healthcare Finance News who frequently reports on hospital finance, capital and regulatory shifts affecting health systems. Specialties: Hospital finance, capital planning, revenue cycle, transactions and policy impacts.
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