Kaiser Health News hires Levey in DC

Noam Levey

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.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.