2024 Winner
The Human Limit
The Washington Post
Niko Kommenda, Annie Gowen, Shannon Osaka, Erin Patrick O’Connor, Simon Ducroquet, Hailey Haymond, Joshua Partlow, Veronica Penney, John Muyskens, Kevin Crowe, Carolyn Van Houten, Jahi Chikwendiu, Rachel Chason, Oriana Chegwidden, Jeremy Freeman, Anant Gupta, Atul Loke, Kareem Fahim, Saiyna Bashir, Ali al-Mujahed, Lorenzo Tugnoli, Caitlin O’Hara, and Adriana Zehbrauskas
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Niko Kommenda
Annie Gowen
Shannon Osaka
Erin Patrick O'Connor
Hailey Haymond
Diane Sawyer
Rachel Scott
ABC News Producers
2024 Winner
ABC News Studios IMPACT x Nightline: On the Brink
ABC News
Diane Sawyer, Rachel Scott, Eman Varoqua, Tess Scott Davidson, Christina Ng, Candace Smith Chekwa, Karin Weinberg, Acacia Nunes, Laura Coburn, Nadine El-Bawab, Desiree Adib, Erin Murtha, Katerina Rosen, Jhasua Scicchitano, Knez Walker, and Anne Flaherty
Video
2024 Winner
Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans
American Economic Review
David C. Chan, David Card, and Lowell Taylor
Article
David C. Chan
David Card
Lowell Taylor
Noam N. Levey
Aneri Pattani
Yuki Noguchi
Anna Werner
Bram Sable-Smith
Juweek Adolphe
Megan Kalata
2023 Winner
Aftershock
ABC News Studios, ONYX Collective, and Hulu
Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee
Video
Paula Eiselt
Tonya Lewis Lee
Charles Piller
Meagan Weiland
David M. Cutler
Kaushik Ghosh
Kassandra Messer
Trivellore Raghunathan
Allison B. Rosen
Susan T. Stewart
2023 Winner
A Satellite Account for Health in the United States
American Economic Review
David M. Cutler, Kaushik Ghosh, Kassandra Messer, Trivellore Raghunathan, Allison B. Rosen, Susan T. Stewart
Article
Jane McMullen
Dan Edge
2022 Winner
China's COVID Secrets
PBS Frontline
Jane McMullen, Alex Mattholie, Stephanie Stafford, and Dan Edge
02/02/212022 Winner
Sacrifice Zones: Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution
ProPublica, The Texas Tribune, and Mountain State Spotlight
Lylla Younes, Al Shaw, Ava Kofman, Lisa Song, Max Blau, Maya Miller, Kiah Collier, Ken Ward Jr., Alyssa Johnson, Lucas Waldron, Kathleen Flynn
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
Lylla Younes
Al Shaw
Ava Kofman
Lisa Song
Max Blau
Maya Miller
Kiah Collier
Ken Ward Jr.
Alyssa Johnson
Lucas Waldron
Kathleen Flynn
Gretchen Vogel
Kai Kupferschmidt
2022 Winner
A rare but real side effect: How scientists recognized deadly complications after the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines
Science Magazine
Gretchen Vogel and Kai Kupferschmidt
03/17/21 03/27/21 05/03/21Honorable Mention
Inequality's Deadly Toll: A century of research has demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease. Can Covid push science to finally address the issue?
Nature
Amy Maxmen
04/28/212022 Winner
Health insurance and mortality: Experimental evidence from taxpayer outreach
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Jacob Goldin, Ithai Z. Lurie, Janet McCubbin
January 2021
Jacob Goldin
Ithai Z. Lurie
Janet McCubbin
Michael Grabell
Bernice Yeung
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2021 Winner
How Global Meatpacking Companies Exposed Workers and Communities to COVID-19 While Government Agencies Failed to Protect Them
ProPublica
Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung
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2021 Winner
Bravery and Hope: 7 Days on the Front Line
CBS News
Susan Zirinsky, Guy Campanile, Mitch Weitzner, CBS News Bravery and Hope team
Learn MoreHonorable Mention
COVID’s Hidden Toll
PBS, FRONTLINE
Daffodil Altan, AndrĂ©s Cediel, MarĂa JosĂ© CalderĂłn, Frank Koughan, Andrew Metz and Raney Aronson-Rath
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CBS Production Team
Andrew Bast
Photo credit: Gilad Thaler
Christina Jewett
Danielle Renwick
credit: Lydia Zuraw/KHN
2021 Winner
Lost on the Frontline
Kaiser Health News and The Guardian
Christina Jewett, Danielle Renwick, Alastair Gee and the Lost on the Frontline team
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Zack Cooper
Fiona Scott Morton
Nathan Shekita
2021 Winner
Surprise! Out-of-Network Billing for Emergency Care in the United States
Journal of Political Economy
Zack Cooper, Fiona Scott Morton and Nathan Shekita
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2020 Winner
Predator on the Reservation
PBS News' Frontline and The Wall Street Journal
Gabe Johnson, Christopher Weaver, Dan Frosch, Raney Aronson-Rath, Andrew Metz, Jennifer S. Forsyth and Mike Shum
2/12/19
2020 Winner
Peripheral Vision: As Office-Based Practices Proliferate, Who Is Watching Out for Patients?
TCTMD
Caitlin E. Cox
Learn More2020 Winner
What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Damon Jones, David Molitor and Julian Reif
November 2019
2020 Winner
Effect of a Workplace Wellness Program on Employee Health and Economic Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial
The Journal of the American Medical Association
Zirui Song and Katherine Baicker
April 2019
2019 Winner
The Rockford File
CBS News, 60 Minutes
Lesley Stahl, Richard Bonin, Ayesha Siddiqi, Richard Buddenhagen, Jeff Fager, Bill Owens
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2019 Winner
The Price Ain't Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Zack Cooper, Stuart V. Craig, Martin Gaynor, John Van Reenen
Learn More2019 Winner
Side Effects
The Columbus Dispatch
Marty Schladen, Catherine Candisky, Lucas Sullivan, Darrel Rowland and Rachel Kilroy
Landing Page 03/13/2018 03/25/2018 04/15/2018 05/20/2018 06/03/2018 06/17/2018 06/24/2018 8/14/2018 12/23/2018
2018 Winner
The Whistleblower and Too Big to Prosecute
60 Minutes, CBS and The Washington Post
Bill Whitaker, Ira Rosen, Sam Hornblower, Robert Zimet, Lenny Bernstein and Scott Higham
Learn MoreHonorable Mention
A Drugmaker Tries to Cash In On The Opioid Epidemic, One State Law At A Time and To Grow Market Share, A Drugmaker Pitches Its Product To Judges
NPR & Side Effects Public Media
Jake Harper
6/12/2017 8/3/2017
2018 Winner
What Does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities and Spending Dynamics
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg, Amitabh Chandra, Benjamin R. Handel and Jonathan T. Kolstad
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2018 Winner
Quantity of Care
The Seattle Times
Mike Baker and Justin Mayo
02/10/2017 02/10/2017 02/21/2017 03/12/2017 05/09/2017 05/28/2017 05/28/2017 08/07/2017 08/10/2017 12/14/2017
2017 Winner
Advanced Black Lung Cases Surge in Appalachia
All Things Considered, NPR and Ohio Valley ReSource
Howard Berkes, Robert Little, Nicole Beemsterboer, Benny Becker and Jeff Young
12/15/2016 12/16/20162017 Winner
Hooked: The global causes and human consequences of America's addiction to opioids
The Wall Street Journal
Jon Kamp, Jeanne Whalen, Arian Campo-Flores, Joseph Walker, Valerie Bauerlein, Jennifer Levitz, Scott Calvert and Brian Spegele
05/19/2016 06/23/2016 10/05/2016 11/04/2016 11/22/2016 12/15/2016 12/23/2016 12/29/2016
2017 Winner
How Product Standardization Affects Choice: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange
Journal of Health Economics
Keith Marzilli Ericson and Amanda Starc
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The Determinants of Productivity in Medical Testing: Intensity and Allocation of Care
American Economic Review
Jason Abaluck, Leila Agha, Chris Kabrhel, Ali Raja and Arjun Venkatesh
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2016 Winner
Adverse Selection and the Individual Mandate: When Theory Meets Practice
American Economic Review
Martin Hackmann, Jonathan Kolstad & Amanda Kowalski
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2015 Winner
Opioid Wars (Honorable Mention)
Fault Lines, Al Jazeera America
Sebastian Walker, Sam Black, Joel Van Haren, Lindy Jankura, Abdulai Bah, Shannon Stanley and Dana Merwin, Nikhil Swaminathan, Carrie Lozano, Mathieu Skene
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2015 Winner
Paying Till It Hurts
The New York Times
Elisabeth Rosenthal
Landing Page 1/18/14 3/8/14 4/5/14 7/2/14 7/8/14 9/20/14 9/28/14 12/15/14Honorable Mention
Mississippi Burned
Politico Magazine
Sarah Varney, Margaret Slattery, Diane Webber
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2015 Winner
The Effect of Medicaid Premiums on Enrollment: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Journal of Health Economics
Laura Dague
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2014 Winner
Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria
FRONTLINE, PBS
Rick Young, Anthony Szulc, David E. Hoffman, Emma Schwartz, Fritz Kramer, Lynne Perri, Charles Lewis, Andrew Metz, Raney Aronson, David Fanning
Learn More2014 Winner
Deadly Delays
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ellen Gabler, Mark Johnson, John Fauber, Allan James Vestal, Kristyna Wentz-Graff
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Other than Honorable
Colorado Springs Gazette
Dave Philipps and Michael Ciaglo
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2014 Winner
Integrating Risk Adjustment and Enrollee Premiums in Health Plan Payment
Journal of Health Economics
Thomas G. McGuire, Jacob Glazer, Joseph P. Newhouse, Sharon-Lise Normand, Julie Shi, Anna D. Sinaiko, Samuel H. Zuvekas
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2016 Winner
Injured Nurses
NPR
Daniel Zwerdling, Robert Little, Nicole Beemsterboer, Barbara Van Woerkom, Robert Benincasa, Samantha Sunne & Lydia Emmanouilidou
Learn More2013 Winner
Cost of Admission
60 Minutes, CBS
eff Fager, Bill Owens, Sam Hornblower, Michael Rey, Oriana Zill de Granados, Robert Zimet, Steve Kroft
Learn More2013 Winner
Cracking the Codes
The Center for Public Integrity
Fred Schulte, Joe Eaton, David Donald, Gordon Witkin
Learn MoreHonorable Mention
TB: A Menace Returns
The Wall Street Journal
Geeta Anand, Betsy McKay, Gautam Naik
1/19/12 6/20/12 9/8/12 11/23/12 11/23/12 11/26/12 12/19/12 12/26/12 12/31/122013 Winner
Sinking, Swimming, or Learning to Swim in Medicare Part D
American Economic Review
Jonathan D. Ketcham, Claudio Lucarelli, Eugenio J. Miravete, M. Christopher Roebuck
Learn More2013 Winner
Health Care’s Costliest 1%
Hospitals & Health Networks
Haydn Bush
August 2012 October 20122012 Winner
Autism: Coming of Age
Veritech Corporation, MassMutual, American Public Television
Catherine Sager, John E. Maher, Brian Leonard, Jeremy Cole, Karen Silverstein
Learn More2012 Winner
Methadone and the Politics of Pain
The Seattle Times
Michael J. Berens, Ken Armstrong
Learn More2012 Winner
Choice Inconsistencies Among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program
American Economic Review
Jason Abaluck, Jonathan Gruber
Learn MoreHonorable Mention
Full Coverage for Preventive Medications after Myocardial Infarction
New England Journal of Medicine
Niteesh Choudhry, Jerry Avorn, Robert Glynn, Elliott Antman, Sebastian Schneeweiss, Michele Toscano, Lonny Reisman, Joaquim Fernandes, Claire Spettell, Joy Lee, Raisa Levin, Troyen Brennan, William Shrank
Learn More2012 Winner
Coupon Overdose
Human Resource Executive
Carol Patton
Learn MoreHonorable Mention
Tragic Tale
National Underwriter Life & Health
Bill Coffin
Learn More2011 Winner
FRONTLINE: The Vaccine War
FRONTLINE, PBS
Jon Palfreman, Kate McMahon, Mark Rublee, Raoul Rosenberg
Learn More2011 Winner
Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas
Las Vegas Sun
Marshall Allen, Alex Richards, Las Vegas Sun staff
Learn More2011 Winner
The Effect of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization
American Economic Review
Mark Duggan, Fiona Scott Morton
Learn More2010 Winner
How A Bone Disease Grew to Fit the Prescription
NPR
Anne Gudenkauf, Gisele Grayson, Alix Spiegel, Jane Greenhalgh
2010 Winner
The Cost Conundrum
The New Yorker
Atul Gawande
2010 Winner
Effects of Care Coordination on Hospitalization, Quality of Care, and Health Care Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries: 15 Randomized Trials
JAMA
Deborah Peikes, Arnold Chen, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown
2010 Winner
Trauma to the System
Modern Healthcare
Joe Carlson
Honorable Mention
The Heart of the Matter: How Congress and Special Interests Kept Crucial Clinical Trial Data Secret
Sunlight Foundation
Nancy Watzman, Bill Allison, Sarah Dorsey, Luke Rosiak, Noah Kunin, Kerry Mitchell, Anu Narayanswamy
2009 Winner
UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
California Newsreel with Vital Pictures
Larry Adelman, Llewellyn Smith, Christine Herbes-Sommers
2009 Winner
Nonprofit Hospitals
The Wall Street Journal
John Carreyrou, Barbara Martinez and Geeta Anand
2009 Winner
The Myxo Ring Mix-Up
theHeart.org (by WebMD)
Shelley Wood
2009 Winner
Impact of Decreasing Copayments on Medication Adherence Within a Disease Management Environment
Health Affairs
Michael Chernew, Mayur Shah, Arnold Wegh, Stephen Rosenberg, Iver Juster, Allison Rosen, Michael Sokol, Kristina Yu-Isenberg, A. Mark Fendrick
2008 Winner
To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports
The Documentary Group/ABC News
Bob Woodruff, Keith Summa & Gabrielle Tenenbaum, Tom Yellin, Kayce Freed Jennings
2008 Winner
VA Mental Health Crisis
McClatchy Newspapers
Chris Adams
2008 Winner
Backfire at Boeing & Doctor's Error, Your Expense
Workforce Management
Jeremy Smerd
2008 Winner
Predictability and Predictiveness in Health Care Spending
Journal of Health Economics
Randall P. Ellis and Thomas G. McGuire
2008 Winner
Custom-Made Versus Ready to Wear Treatments: Behavioral Propensities in Physicians’ Choices
Journal of Health Economics
Richard G. Frank and Richard J. Zeckhauser
2007 Winner
Through Hell and High Water
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jane Hansen
2007 Winner
Crisis in Health Care: Does Vic Wood Have the Answer?
Medical Economics
Robert Lowes
2007 Winner
Is Health Insurance Affordable for the Uninsured?
Journal of Health Economics
M. Kate Bundorf and Mark V. Pauly
2006 Winner
The Most Expensive Drugs
The Wall Street Journal
Geeta Anand
Honorable Mention
Chronic Condition: The Waste in Medicare Spending
The Washington Post
Gilbert Gaul
2006 Winner
Chronic Questions
Modern Healthcare
Laura Benko
2006 Winner
The Effects of Medicaid Reimbursement on the Access to Care of Medicaid Enrollees: A Community Perspective
Medical Care Research and Review
Peter J. Cunningham and Len Nichols
2005 Winner
Why We're Losing the War on Cancer (And How to Win It)
Fortune
Clifton Leaf
Honorable Mention
If I Die
The Baltimore Sun
Diana K. Sugg
2005 Winner
A Case of Neglect
Governing Magazine
Katherine Barrett, Richard Greene and Michele Mariani
2005 Winner
Physician Incentives in Health Maintenance Organizations
Journal of Political Economy
Martin Gaynor, James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor
2004 Winner
Who Gets Health Care?
The Wall Street Journal
Geeta Anand, Elena Cherney, Peter Landers, Laura Landro, Laurie McGinley, Antonio Regalado and Bernard Wysocki, Jr.
Honorable Mention
The Menace of Aortic Aneurysms
The Wall Street Journal
Thomas M. Burton and Kevin Helliker
Honorable Mention
The Cost of Courage
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Steve Twedt
2004 Winner
Code of Silence
Daily Business Review
Steve Ellman
Honorable Mention
It's More Than Just Tenet
Modern Healthcare
Mary Chris Jaklevic
2004 Winner
Is More Information Better? The Effects of 'Report Cards' on Health Care Providers
Journal of Political Economy
David Dranove, Daniel P. Kessler, Mark B. McClellan, Mark Satterthwaite
2003 Winner
Unhealthy Hospitals
Chicago Tribune
Michael J. Berens and Bruce Japsen
Honorable Mention
Ethan's Story
Asheville Citizen-Times
Leslie Boyd
2003 Winner
Stuck in the Middle
Modern Healthcare
Cinda Becker
2003 Winner
Can Patient Self-Management Help Explain the SES Health Gradient?
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Dana P. Goldman, James P. Smith
2002 Winner
Dying in Darkness
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ken Foskett and Ann Hardie
Honorable Mention
Will Your ER Be There for You?
The Plain Dealer
Diane Solov and Regina McEnery
Honorable Mention
It's a Crime
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Steve Twedt
2002 Winner
Getting the Jump on Leapfrog
COR Healthcare Market Strategist
David Ollier Weber
2002 Winner
How Does Risk Sharing Between Employers and a Managed Behavioral Health Organization Affect Mental Health Care?
Health Services Research
Roland Sturm
2001 Winner
State of Pain
The River Front Times
Melinda Roth
Honorable Mention
What's Killing Us?
The Jackson Sun
W. Matt Meyer, Tonya Smith-King and Wendy Wilson
Honorable Mention
Unhealthy Cuts
Associated Press
Malia Rulon
2001 Winner
Teen Suicide: The Silent Epidemic
Education Week
Jessica Portner
Honorable Mention
Depression in the Workforce: Seeing the Cost in a Fuller Light
Business Health
Emil Vernarec
2001 Winner
The Effects of Medical Group Practice and Physician Payment Methods on Costs of Care
Health Services Research
John E. Kralewski, Eugene C. Rich, Roger Feldman, Bryan E. Dowd, Terence Bernhardt, Christopher Johnson, William Gold
2000 Winner
Patients at Risk
The Boston Globe
Larry Tye
2000 Winner
The Trouble with Mergers
Healthcare Business Media
Joanne Todd
2000 Winner
Managed Care, Consolidation Among Health Care Providers, and Health Care: Evidence from Mammography
RAND Journal of Economics
Laurence C. Baker, Martin L. Brown
2000 Winner
Geographic Variation in Physician Visits for Uninsured Children: The Role of the Safety Net
JAMA
Stephen H. Long, M. Susan Marquis
1999 Winner
Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill
The Boston Globe
Robert Whitaker and Dolores Kong
Honorable Mention
The Tarnished Years: How The Nursing Home System Fails Our Seniors
The Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis News
Bonnie Harris, Joe Fahy and Steve Healy
1999 Winner
Out for Blood
Modern Healthcare
Scott Hensley
Honorable Mention
Cash Cows
California Medicine
Steve Heimoff
1999 Winner
Medicaid-Dependent Hospitals and Their Patients: How Have They Fared?
Health Services Research
David Dranove, William White
1999 Winner
Impact of a Children's Health Insurance Program on Newly Enrolled Children
JAMA
Judith R. Lave, Christopher R. Keane, Chyongchiou J. Lin, Edmund M. Ricci, Gabriele Amersbach, Charles P. LaVallee
1998 Winner
Unnecessary Danger
The Dayton Daily News
Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith
1998 Winner
When IPA's Fail
California Medicine
Mark Hagland
1998 Winner
The Effect of HMOs on Fee-for-Service Health Care Expenditures: Evidence From Medicare
Journal of Health Economics
Laurence C. Baker
1998 Winner
Accounting for Future of Costs in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Journal of Health Economics
David Meltzer
1998 Winner
Long-term Effects of Home Visitation on Maternal Life Course and Child Abuse and Neglec
JAMA
David L. Olds, John Eckenrode, Charles R. Henderson, Jr., Harriet Kitzman, Jane Powers, Robert Cole, Kimberly Sidora, Pamela Morris, Lisa M. Pettitt, Dennis Luckey
1997 Winner
For Profit Medicine Arrives in Massachusetts
The Boston Globe
Boston Globe Spotlight Team
1997 Winner
Breaking the E-Code
American Medical News
Greg Borzo
1997 Winner
Effect of Frequency of Prenatal Care Visits on Perinatal Outcome Among Low-Risk Women
JAMA
Robert S. McDuffie Jr, Arne Beck, Kimberly Bischoff, Jean Cross, Miriam Orleans
1996 Winner
Heart Trouble at KU Med
Kansas City Star
Cheryl W. Thompson
1996 Winner
The Quagmire of Medicaid Reform
American Medical News
Harris Meyer
1996 Winner
The Effect of Market Structure on HMO Premiums
Journal of Health Economics
Douglas Wholey, Roger Feldman, Jon B. Christianson
1995 Winner
Profits from Pain
Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Fred Schulte and Jenni Bergal
1995 Winner
The Bypass Business
Syracuse Herald Journal
Amber Smith
1995 Winner
The Performance of Intensive Care Units: Does Good Management Make a Difference?,
Medical Care
Stephen Shortell, Denise Rousseau, Jack Zimmerman, Robin Gillies, Douglas Wagner, Elizabeth Draper, William Knaus, Joanne Duffy