STAT April 25, 2024
Dear Readers,
Please bear with me as I brag about two of STAT’s most accomplished (and humble) reporters: Casey Ross and Bob Herman.
This week they won the Batten Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in American journalism, for their series revealing an explicit strategy by the nation’s largest health insurer to use a flawed computer algorithm to increase profits in its Medicare Advantage business at the expense of vulnerable older Americans.
Their stories about UnitedHealth also won the NIHCM Award for investigative and general reporting, an extraordinarily competitive prize in health care journalism. It was a finalist for several other top journalism prizes, including the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the...
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