2024 Finalist
The Human Limit
The Washington Post
Niko Kommenda, Annie Gowen, Saiyna Bashir, Shannon Osaka, Erin Patrick O’Connor, Simon Ducroquet, Joshua Partlow, Veronica Penney, Carolyn Van Houten, John Muyskens, Anant Gupta, Atul Loke, Kareem Fahim, Rachel Chason, Kevin Crowe, Jahi Chikwendiu, Ali al-Mujahed, Lorenzo Tugnoli, Oriana Chegwidden, and Jeremy Freeman
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 72024 Finalist
America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There's No Tomorrow
The New York Times
Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi, and Eli Murray
Article2024 Finalist
Fentanyl: The Silent Toll
Scripps News
Lori Jane Gliha, Brittany Freeman, Zach Cusson, Colin McIntyre, Lauren Knapp, Kyle Short, Thierry Humeau, and Max McClellan
Video2024 Finalist
Can the U.S. Put an End to Surprise Ambulance Bills?
Tradeoffs Podcast, in collaboration with STAT
Tradeoffs: Leslie Walker, Dan Gorenstein, Andrew Parrella, Cate Cahan, and Cedric Wilson; STAT: Bob Herman and Tara Bannow
Podcast2024 Finalist
The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America
The Nocturnists
Ali Block, MD, Emily Silverman, MD, Molly Rose-Williams, Sam Osborn, Jessica Yung, Jon Oliver, Anjali Walia, Dahlia Kaki, Fiona Miller, Mulki Mehari, Treya Tompkins, Carly Besser, Rebecca Groves, and Nicole Xu
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 42024 Finalist
ABC News Studios IMPACT x Nightline: On the Brink
ABC News
Diane Sawyer, Rachel Scott, Eman Varoqua, Tess Scott, Christina Ng, Candace Smith Chekwa, Karin Weinberg, Acacia Nunes, Laura Coburn, Nadine El-Bawab, Desiree Adib, Erin Murtha, Katerina Rosen, and Jhasua Scicchitano
Video2024 Finalist
Quest's Alzheimer's Blood Test Has Experts Concerned
MedPage Today
Judy George
Article2024 Finalist
For a Pivotal Vaccine: Trial, Error, and Two Young Lives
Undark Magazine
Michael Schulson
Article2024 Finalist
At $20K, Stem Cell Eye Injections May Also Cost Patients Their Sight
MedPage Today
Sophie Putka
Article2024 Finalist
The NIH has poured $1 billion into long Covid research — with little to show for it
STAT and MuckRock
Rachel Cohrs and Betsy Ladyzhets
Article2024 Finalist
Birth control fail: Why American women can’t have better contraceptives in 2023
Fortune
Maria Aspan
Article2024 Finalist
A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry.
The Washington Post
Richard Sima
Article2024 Finalist
Owner incentives and performance in healthcare: Private equity investment in nursing homes
The Review of Financial Studies
Atul Gupta, Sabrina Howell, Constantine Yannelis, and Abhinav Gupta
Article2024 Finalist
Is there a VA advantage? Evidence from dually eligible veterans
American Economic Review
David C. Chan, David Card, and Lowell Taylor
Article2024 Finalist
Do urgent care centers reduce Medicare spending?
Journal of Health Economics
Janet Currie, Anastasia Karpova, and Dan Zeltzer
Article2024 Finalist
Racial and ethnic disparities in health care use and access associated with the loss of Medicaid supplemental insurance eligibility above the federal poverty level
JAMA Internal Medicine
Eric T. Roberts, Youngmin Kwon, Alexandra G. Hames, J. Michael McWilliams, John Z. Ayanian, and Renuka Tipirneni
Article2024 Finalist
Private equity and healthcare firm behavior: Evidence from ambulatory surgery centers
Journal of Health Economics
Haizhen Lin, Elizabeth L. Munnich, Michael R. Richards, Christopher M. Whaley, and Xiaoxi Zhao
Article2023 Finalist
The Weight of Stigma: Heavier Patients Confront a Bias
Retro Report and Scientific American
Kelso Harper, Kit R. Roane, Kyra Darnton, Jeffrey DelViscio, and Christopher Buck
Article2023 Finalist
Hurricane Ian’s preventable deaths
NBC News Digital
Jon Schuppe, Elizabeth Chuck, Melissa Chan, Lewis Kamb, and Nigel Chiwaya
Article2023 Finalist
The Critical Role of Web Accessibility in Health Information Access, Understanding, and Use
AHIMAFoundation.org
Amanda Krupa, MSc, Jill B. Roark, MPH, and Kirsten Barrett, PhD
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Video Series2023 Finalist
VICE News Tonight Investigates: Post-Roe America
VICE News
Maral Usefi, Nikki Egan, Stacey Sommer, Samantha Wender, Gianna Toboni, Hendrik Hinzel, Madeleine May, Arlissa Norman, Victoria Lesiw, Alejandro Soto, Jeb Banegas, Daniel Vergara, Dan Cain, Alex Rosen, Zach Wood, Mack Woodruff, Zach Caldwell, Jason Blalock, Sam Stonefield, and Michael Lopez
Video2023 Finalist
VICE News Tonight Investigates: Beyond Fentanyl
VICE News
Manisha Krishnan, Gilad Thaler, Patrick Mannion, Arlissa Norman, Madeleine May, Samuel Stonefield, Dan Cain, Stacey Sommer, Nikki Egan, Maral Usefi, Natasha Grzincic, Jeff Ricker, Zach Wood, Trey Strange, and Neda Toloui-Semnani
Video2023 Finalist
Aftershock
ABC News Studios, ONYX Collective, Hulu
Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee
Video2023 Finalist
RISING UP IN THE HEARTLAND: Latino workers fight for pandemic relief
Univision and HHMI
Federica Narancio, Victoria Bouloubasis, Anna Clare Spelman, Adriana Loeff, Richard Stone, Félix Pérez, Angelito Post, Frank Barragán, Diego Medrano, Santiago Fernández, and Richard Redfern
Video & Article2023 Finalist
What to expect when you’re expecting an extra X or Y chromosome
MIT Technology Review
Bonnie Rochman
Article2023 Finalist
Not Reported: When Radioactive Imaging Agent Leaks Into Tissue
Medscape
Sharon Worcester
Article2023 Finalist
A battle is raging over long covid in children
MIT Technology Review
Jessica Hamzelou
Article2023 Finalist
A biotech paused a gene therapy hatched by families. Now they want control
Endpoints News
Jared Whitlock
Article2023 Finalist
When They Warn of Rare Disorders, These Prenatal Tests Are Usually Wrong
The New York Times
Sarah Kliff and Aatish Bhatia
Article2023 Finalist
Patients for Profit: How Private Equity Hijacked Health Care
KFF Health News
Fred Schulte, Rae Ellen Bichell, Sarah Jane Tribble, Markian Hawryluk, Hannah Norman, Sarah Varney, Emmarie Huetteman, Rachana Pradhan, and Lauren Sausser
Series Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 102023 Finalist
Trading Spaces: Medicare’s Regulatory Spillovers on Treatment Settings for Non-Medicare Patients
Journal of Health Economics
Michael Geruso and Michael R. Richards
Article2023 Finalist
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
Article2023 Finalist
Negative Patient Descriptors: Documenting Racial Bias in the Electronic Health Record
Health Affairs
Michael Sun, Tomasz Oliwa, Monica Peek, Elizabeth Tung
Article2023 Finalist
Association of Physician Management Companies and Private Equity Investment with Commercial Health Care Prices Paid to Anesthesia Practitioners
JAMA Internal Medicine
Ambar La Forgia, Amelia M. Bond, Robert Tyler Braun, Leah Z. Yao, Klaus Kjaer, Manyao Zhang, Lawrence P. Casalino
Article2023 Finalist
Drug Diffusion Through Peer Networks: The Influence of Industry Payments
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Leila Agha and Dan Zeltzer
Article2022 Finalist
Under Pressure: Inside the College Mental Health Crisis
APM Reports, American Public Media
Alisa Roth and Sasha Aslanian
8/19/212022 Finalist
The GAP: Failure to Treat, Failure to Protect
NBC KARE 11
A.J. Lagoe, Brandon Stahl, Steve Eckert, Ron Stover, and Gary Knox
12/24/212022 Finalist
Children That Pay
NBC News
Hannah Rappleye, Kate Snow, Eric Salzman, Tyler Kingkade, Wally Griffith, Meghan Lisson, Candice Goldman, and Allison Stedman
4/4/212022 Finalist
China's COVID Secrets
PBS, Frontline
Jane McMullen, Alex Mattholie, Stephanie Stafford, and Dan Edge
2/2/212022 Finalist
COVID Patients Fighting for Their Lives Are Still Refusing the Vaccine
VICE News
Dan Ming, Gilad Thaler, Zachary Rockwood, Patrick Mannion, Samantha M. Wender, Maral Usefi and Stacey Sommer
8/12/212022 Finalist
Below Aging U.S. Dams, a Potential Toxic Calamity
Undark
James Dinneen & Alexander Kennedy
06/01/212022 Finalist
Sacrifice Zones: Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution
ProPublica, The Texas Tribune, and Mountain State Spotlight
Al Shaw, Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Lisa Song, Max Blau, Kiah Collier, Ken Ward, Jr., Alyssa Johnson, Maya Miller, Lucas Waldron, Kathleen Flynn
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 52022 Finalist
'Magic dirt': How the internet fueled, and defeated, the pandemic's weirdest MLM
NBC News
Brandy Zadrozny
12/02/212022 Finalist
Legal Counsel: A Health Care Partner For Immigrant Communities
Health Affairs
Rebecca Gale
8/1/212022 Finalist
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
4/28/212022 Finalist
Drug firms' payments and physicians' prescribing behavior in Medicare Part D
Journal of Public Economics
Carey C, Lieber E, Miller S.
May 20212022 Finalist
Docs with their eyes on the clock? The effect of time pressures on primary care productivity
Journal of Health Economics
Freedman S, Golberstein E, Huang T, Satin D, Smith L.
May 20212022 Finalist
Health insurance and mortality: Experimental evidence from taxpayer outreach
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Goldin J, Lurie I, McCubbin J.
January 20212022 Finalist
The long-run effects of childhood insurance coverage: Medicaid implementation, adult health, and labor market outcomes
American Economic Review
Goodman-Bacon A.
August 20212022 Finalist
Impacts of performance pay for hospitals: The readmissions reduction program
American Economic Review
Gupta A.
April 20212022 Finalist
Medicaid and mortality: New evidence from linked survey and administrative data
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Miller S, Johnson N, Wherry L.
January 20212022 Finalist
Medicaid coverage "cliff" increases expenses and decreases care for near-poor Medicare beneficiaries
Health Affairs
Roberts E, Glynn A, Cornelio N, Donohue J, Gellad W, McWilliams M, Sabik L.
April 20212021 Finalist
Inside the coronavirus testing failure: Alarm and dismay among the scientists who sought to help
The Washington Post
Shawn Boburg, Robert O’Harrow, Neena Satija and Amy Goldstein
4/3/202021 Finalist
How global meatpacking companies exposed workers and communities to COVID-19 while government agencies failed to protect them
ProPublica
Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung
Project Page2021 Finalist
Nursing Homes' Fatal Failures
The Wall Street Journal
Anna Wilde Mathews, Christopher Weaver, Jon Kamp, Elizabeth Koh, Gabe Johnson, Nora Eckert, Jason Douglas, Dan Frosch, Tom McGinty, Dasl Yoon, and Joel Eastwood
3/23/20 3/26/20 4/10/20 5/14/20 6/11/20 8/21/20 10/6/20 12/14/20 12/31/202021 Finalist
The Great Divide: COVID-19 and Race in Chicago
Al Jazeera English, Fault Lines
Laila Al-Arian, Kavitha Chekuru, Natasha Del Toro, Erik Ljung and Adrienne Haspel
11/12/20202021 Finalist
COVID's Hidden Toll
PBS, FRONTLINE
Daffodil Altan, Andrés Cediel, María José Calderón, Frank Koughan, Andrew Metz and Raney Aronson-Rath
7/21/20202021 Finalist
Bravery and Hope: 7 Days on the Front Line
CBS News
Guy Campanile, Mitch Weitzner, Susan Zirinsky, Andrew Bast, T. Sean Herbert, Gilad Thaler, Danielle Levy, Josh Gaynor, Sasha Reuther, Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson, Pat Milton, Michael McHugh, Michael Vele, Seth Fox, Diana DeCilio, Holden Frandino, Marcelena Spencer and Josh Gelman
5/15/20202021 Finalist
Insight with John Ferrugia- Breakdown
Rocky Mountain PBS
John Ferrugia, Laura Frank, Phil Maravilla, Coby Howell, Brittany Freeman, Jason Foster, Josh Burleson and Brian Malone
1/20/20212021 Finalist
60 Minutes: COVID’s Long Haulers
CBS News, 60 Minutes
Anderson Cooper, Nichole Marks, David M. Levine, and Peter M. Berman
11/21/20202021 Finalist
Coronavirus Pandemic
PBS, FRONTLINE
Miles O'Brien, Caleb Hellerman, Kate McMahon, Fedor Kossakovski, Megan Robertson, Will Toubman, Frank Koughan, Andrew Metz and Raney Aronson-Rath
4/21/20202021 Finalist
America's pandemic: After Decades of Warning, a Failed Response
The Washington Post
Whitney Shefte, Jorge Ribas and Brian Monro
10/27/20202021 Finalist
Navajo Nation
PBS NewsHour
Stephanie Sy, Richard Coolidge, Lena Jackson, Casey Kuhn and Sara Just
4/24/2020 5/25/2020 11/25/20202021 Finalist
Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker
Bloomberg
Drew Armstrong, Tom Randall, Cedric Sam, Paul Murray, Andre Tartar and Yue Qiu
Project Page2021 Finalist
The Color of the Coronavirus: Covid-19 Deaths by Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.
American Public Media/APM Research Lab
Andi Egbert, Kristine Liao, Gabriel Cortes, Craig Helmstetter, Benjamin Clary and Matthew Hanson
Project Page2021 Finalist
Dying Inside
Reuters
Peter Eisler, Jason Szep, Linda So, Grant Smith, Ned Parker and team
10/16/2020 (a series)