Journalists Review Hospital Penalties and Problems Riddling Medicaid Rx Program

Samantha Young, a political correspondent for California Healthline, on Feb. 15 discussed how Medi-Cal patients struggle to get their prescription drugs on KCRW’s “Press Play.”

• Click here to hear Young on “Press Play”
• Read Young’s “‘Somebody Is Gonna Die’: Medi-Cal Patients Struggle to Fill Prescriptions“

Interim Southern bureau editor Andy Miller discussed Medicare penalties for hospitals in Georgia on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s “Lawmakers” on Feb. 10.

• Click here to watch Miller on “Lawmakers”
• Read Miller’s “More Penalized Georgia Hospitals … and More Controversy“
• For a national look at Medicare penalties, read Jordan Rau’s “Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars“

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