Sarah Kliff
@sarahkliff
Investigations and health policy for the @nytimes. I like reading your medical bills.
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New: seven companies have quietly billed Medicare over $2 billion for catheters that patients never ordered — or even received.
Watchdog groups, doctors, and beneficiaries all suspect a major scam is underway. From me and Katie Thomas:
nytimes.com/2024/02/09/hea…
Ran out of space but also wanted to say — if you're a doctor who works in this space, a researcher who studies it, etc, I want to hear from you too! DMs are always open and my email is [email protected]
Big day in health policy: the United States joins pretty much every other developed nation in negotiating drug prices.
More via Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Rebecca Robbins:
nytimes.com/2023/08/29/us/…
New: Nonprofit health system Allina has stopped denying care to patients with debt, two months after Jessica Silver-Greenberg 🕵🏻♀️ and I wrote about the practice.
The health system still faces an investigation by AG Keith Ellison into its billing practices.
nytimes.com/2023/08/24/hea…
🚨NEW: Giant medical device companies are bankrolling doctors who push lucrative procedures that can cost some patients their limbs—and their livelihoods.
We dug into this $2 b a year industry. Katie Thomas, Robert Gebeloff, Virginia Hughes, David Enrich nytimes.com/2023/07/15/hea…
Last year, Aatish Bhatia and I looked at a booming market of prenatal tests that usually get their positive results wrong.
Now, the government plans to take major steps to start regulating the industry.
nytimes.com/2023/06/27/ups…
IMPACT: Allina Health suspends policy of cutting off indebted patients one week after The New York Times investigation. Sarah Kliff Jessica Silver-Greenberg 🕵🏻♀️ Virginia Hughes nytimes.com/2023/06/09/hea…
It's a great question. We know very little about how often health systems deny care because of unpaid bills.
The best resource I've seen on it is a KFF Health News investigation led by Noam Levey, which surveyed 500 hospitals. Found about 20% allow this.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article/m…
I'm on today's Headlines show talking about our investigation into a wealthy health system denying care to patients in debt. You can listen on the new The New York Times audio app! nytimes.com/2023/06/02/pod…
Tremendous reporting by Sarah Kliff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg 🕵🏻♀️.
It’s not just Allina. I reported in Nov that Mayo Clinic also denies indebted patients care. I heard from many — one who couldn’t continue her chemo treatments. Mothers whose children couldn’t even see their doctors. 🧵