NIHCM Foundation Announces 2015 Awards Finalists

21st Annual NIHCM Foundation Health Care Digital Media Award Finalists

• Lisa Aliferis, Lisa Pickoff-White, Olivia Allen-Price, State of Health, KQED, 11/17/14, 9/11/14, 3/23/14, 2/3/14
• Julia Belluz, “The Science of Obesity and Weight Loss,” Vox, 11/27/14, 12/19/14, 12/23/14, 8/25/14
• Aaron Carroll, Mark Olsen, Stan Muller, “Healthcare Triage—Using Evidence to Inform Policy,” Healthcare Triage, 1/19/14, 6/9/14, 10/6/14, 5/26/14
• Carlos Fioravanti, “The Stepping Stones to Rare Diseases,” Pesquisa, August 2014
• Westby Fisher, “The ABIM Foundation, Choosing Wisely, and the $2.3 Million Condominium” & “Reviewing the Regulators,” Dr. Wes Blog, 12/16/14, 10/21/14
• David Gorski, “The Problems with Right-to-Try,” Science-Based Medicine, 3/8/14, 4/27/14, 7/21/14, 11/2/14
• Matthew Herper, The Medicine Show, Forbes, 1/8/14, 6/12/14, 8/8/14, 12/7/14
• Alexander Howard, TechRepublic, CBS Interactive, 6/10/14, 3/11/14
• Allan Joseph, “Treating Hepatitis C,” The Incidental Economist, 6/13/14, 6/16/14, 6/17/14, 6/18/14
• Sarah Kliff, “How America Pays for Health Care,” Vox, 9/2/14, 12/22/14, 4/17/14, 12/2/14
• Maggie Mahar, “Obamacare’s Victims, Part 1 and Part 2,” HealthInsurance.org, 1/2/14, 1/3/14
• Marc-David Munk, “The Future,” Considering American Healthcare, 9/13/14, 8/18/14, 8/8/14, 7/10/14
• Elaine Schattner, “Cancer Patients Need More Guidance in Treatment Decisions,” Forbes, 8/28/14, 8/13/14, 9/24/14, 11/2/14
• Gary Schwitzer, “HealthNewsReview.org Posts 34 Pieces in 2014 on Imbalanced Media Messages on Screening Tests,” Health News Watchdog, HealthNewsReview.org, 10/1/14, 7/9/14, 6/25/14, 9/16/14

21st Annual NIHCM Foundation Health Care Print Journalism Award Finalists

General Circulation Publications

• Nina Bernstein, “Fighting to Honor a Father's Last Wish,” The New York Times, 9/25/14
• John Fauber, Elbert Chu, Coulter Jones, “Drug Approvals,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today, 10/26/14, 12/21/14, 12/22/14
• Ezekiel Emanuel, “Why I Hope to Die at 75,” The Atlantic, October 2014
• Abby Goodnough, Erica Berenstein, Emma Cott, “Remaking Medicine,” The New York Times, 3/2/14, 3/30/14, 8/28/14, 9/16/14, 12/29/14
• Jay Hancock, “Government Action on ACA Loopholes,” Kaiser Health News, also published in The Washington Post, NPR, Daily Beast, 5/7/14, 9/12/14, 9/26/14, 10/16/14, 11/4/14, 11/25/14
• Rob Barry, Christopher S. Stewart, Christopher Weaver, John Carreyrou, Tom McGinty, Anna Wilde Mathews, Janet Adamy, “Medicare Unmasked,” The Wall Street Journal, 6/9/14, 6/19/14, 8/14/14, 9/8/14, 10/22/14, 11/11/14, 12/11/14, 12/26/14
• David Jackson, Gary Marx, Duaa Eldeib, “Harsh Treatment,” Chicago Tribune, 12/2/14, 12/3/14, 12/4/14, 12/5/14, 12/8/14
• Andrea McDaniels, "Collateral Damage,” The Baltimore Sun, 12/14/14, 12/18/14, 12/21/14
• Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Paying Till It Hurts,” The New York Times, 1/18/14, 3/8/14, 4/5/14, 7/2/14, 7/8/14, 9/20/14, 9/28/14, 12/15/14
• Fred Schulte, Erin Durkin, David Donald, Chris Zubak-Skees,“Medicare Advantage Money Grab,” Center for Public Integrity, 6/4/14, 6/4/14, 6/9/14, 6/10/14, 6/10/14, 7/9/14, 8/7/14, 8/19/14, 10/21/14
• Sarah Varney, Margaret Slattery, Diane Weber, “Mississippi Burned,” Politico Magazine, October 2014

Trade Publications

• Cheryl Clark, “Sepsis Success,” HealthLeaders, June 2014
• Sarah Gantz, “Maryland's Hospital Regulation Experiment,” Baltimore Business Journal, 2/21/14, 5/30/14, 8/15/14, 10/17/14, 11/28/14
• Bob Herman, “A Changing Landscape for Academic Medicine,” Modern Healthcare, 7/5/14
• Bob Herman, “Disinvesting in Climate Change,” Modern Healthcare, 8/2/14
• Beth Kutscher, “Two Americas,” Modern Healthcare, 8/16/14
• Howard Larkin, “Population Health: Risks and Rewards,” Hospitals & Health Networks, February 2014, May 2014, October 2014, December 2014
• Carol Patton, “Forget Me Not,” Human Resources Executive, 5/7/14
• Tinker Ready, “Bariatric Surgery and the Obesity Battle,” HealthLeaders, 5/26/14
• Antonio Regalado, “Spotting Cancer in a Vial of Blood,” MIT Technology Review, 8/11/14
• Sabriya Rice, “The Ratings Maze,” Modern Healthcare, 5/31/14

21st Annual NIHCM Foundation Research Award Finalists

• Laura Dague. “The Effect of Medicaid Premiums on Enrollment: A Regression Discontinuity Approach.” Journal of Health Economics, May 2014.
• Kate Ho, Ariel Pakes. “Hospital Choices, Hospital Prices and Financial Incentives to Physicians.” American Economic Review, December 2014.
• J. Michael McWilliams, Bruce E. Landon, Michael E. Chernew, Alan M. Zaslavsky. “Changes in Patients’ Experiences in Medicare Accountable Care Organizations.” The New England Journal of Medicine, October 2014.
• Benjamin D. Sommers, Sharon K. Long, Katherine Baicker. “Changes in Mortality After Massachusetts Health Care Reform.” Annals of Internal Medicine, May 2014.
• Christopher Whaley, Jennifer Schneider Chafen, Sophie Pinkard, Gabriella Kellerman, Dena Bravata, Robert Kocher, Neeraj Sood. “Association Between Availability of Health Service Prices and Payments for These Services.” The Journal of the American Medical Association, October 2014.

8th Annual NIHCM Foundation Health Care Television and Radio Journalism Award Finalists

• Laila Al-Arian (Producer), Anjali Kamat (Correspondent), “Access Restricted,” Fault Lines, Al Jazeera America, 4/26/14
• Richard Bonin (Producer), Cassi Feldman (Associate Producer), Richard Budderhagen (Editor), Lesley Stahl (Correspondent), “The Cost of Cancer Drugs,” 60 Minutes, CBS News, 10/5/14
• Sanjay Gupta, “Weed 2: Cannabis Madness,” CNN Special Reports, 3/11/14
• Richard Harris (Science Correspondent), Robert Benincasa (Producer, Investigations Unit), “Science Squeeze: Hard Times in Medical Research,” NPR, 9/9/14, 9/9/14, 9/10/14, 9/15/14, 9/16/14, 9/16/14, 9/17/14
• Sebastian Walker (Correspondent), Sam Black (Producer), “Opioid Wars,” Fault Lines, Al Jazeera America, 10/25/14

About the Awards

Established in 1993, the NIHCM Awards recognize the talented journalists and researchers who serve as catalysts for positive change by advancing and informing public and private policy making. NIHCM's President and CEO, Nancy Chockley, explains, "NIHCM was founded to provoke new thinking and ideas. Through our awards, we recognize the tremendous contributions of researchers and journalists who bring new evidence to light and communicate it to the public." This year's competition brought in nearly 500 entries.

About NIHCM

The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the health of Americans by spurring workable and creative solutions to pressing health care problems.