Kaiser Health News has hired Noam Levey as a reporter in its Washington office.
Levey, a senior correspondent, previously spent 17 years at the Los Angeles Times, the last 12 as the paper’s national health care reporter based in Washington, D.C.
He has reported on health care issues from more than three dozen states and four continents and won numerous honors, including the prestigious NIHCM award for his 2019 series “Inside America’s High-Deductible Revolution.” He has also been published in Health Affairs, JAMA and the Milbank Quarterly.
Levey started his career at newspapers in Duluth, Minnesota; Montgomery, Alabama; and the United Arab Emirates. Prior to the Times, he was an investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News.
He has a degree in history and Near Eastern studies from Princeton University.