Dear Readers,
Please bear with me as I brag about two of STAT’s most accomplished (and humble) reporters: Casey Ross and Bob Herman.
This week they won the Batten Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in American journalism, for their series revealing an explicit strategy by the nation’s largest health insurer to use a flawed computer algorithm to increase profits in its Medicare Advantage business at the expense of vulnerable older Americans.
Their stories about UnitedHealth also won the NIHCM Award for investigative and general reporting, an extraordinarily competitive prize in health care journalism. It was a finalist for several other top journalism prizes, including the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the 2023 Investigative Reporters & Editors Awards, and the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing “Best in Business” Awards.
This recognition is important to us because it shows that, though we are a relatively young media company, we are operating at the very highest levels of our profession. From the start, our mission has been to deliver trusted and authoritative coverage of health and medicine that pulls no punches. Some of those we cover may be unhappy about our stories, but we hope they respect our fair and meticulous reporting.
Read more here.
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