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And now for something completely different...my house was invaded by bees a few weeks ago! Both a horrifying experience and a fun reporting adventure 🐝🐝🐝 nytimes.com/2024/04/30/sci…

Over 11 years, Anna Lazos spent $3,000 banking her son's cord blood. When she finally tried to use it — her one shot at a promising clinical trial — she learned it was contaminated with E. Coli. My new The New York Times investigation into cord blood banking nytimes.com/2024/07/15/hea…

Across the United States, a growing number of families are paying to store frozen embryos. The The New York Times is looking to hear from families who can talk about that experience. Share your story here. Thank you advance! nytimes.com/2024/07/13/hea…

We're also looking to talk to professionals/investors in the IVF and embryo storage space too. Feel free to submit to the callout below, or reach me directly at [email protected].

Trump's proposal to have the government pay for I.V.F. could create something like single-payer for fertility treatment. More from me on how, exactly that would work: nytimes.com/2024/08/30/hea…

As its revenue has soared, a major chain of psychiatric hospitals has repeatedly detained patients who didn't need to be there. Big new story from Jessica Silver-Greenberg 🕵🏻‍♀️ and Katie Thomas: nytimes.com/2024/09/01/bus…

Healthy black women are much more likely to end up with unnecessary C-sections than healthy white women — especially when the operating room is sitting empty. Fascinating new paper looks at the intersection of race + financial incentives in healthcare. nytimes.com/2024/09/10/hea…

Today's hearing again shows Kennedy's lack of familiarity with programs he would run. Asked by Sen. Hassan what Medicare Part A is, he responds it is "mainly for primary care." Medicare Part A a multi-billion program that pays for hospital care for the elderly.

New: DOGE has requested access to Medicare systems that control all contracts and over $1 trillion in payments, according to Jonathan Swan, Teddy Schleifer & co.'s sweeping new story. nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/…

Some federal health clinics still cannot access their grant money — despite judges ordering an end to the funding freeze. One clinic in Virginia ran out of money, and had to close three health care facilities. nytimes.com/live/2025/02/0…

Medicare spending on bandages made out of dried placenta skyrocketed to $10 billion last year, our new The New York Times story finds — possibly representing one of the largest cases of Medicare waste in the program's history. nytimes.com/2025/04/10/hea…

If you want to understand the problem of "waste, fraud, and abuse" in federal health programs, you should read this great piece by Sarah Kliff and Katie Thomas on scammy skin substitute comanies.

A definitive new study, which uses detailed death and tax records for more than 37 million Americans, finds Medicaid expansion has saved over 27,000 lives. nytimes.com/2025/05/16/hea…

Medicaid is a more cost-effective way to save lives than lots of other things the government pays for, like vehicle inspections or some cancer treatments. More from me + Margot Sanger-Katz on a big new Medicaid study: nytimes.com/2025/05/16/hea…

The Medicaid work requirement the House passed this morning is the strictest version of the policy that Congress has ever put forward. Diving into the details with Margot Sanger-Katz: nytimes.com/2025/05/22/ups…