Christina Jewett

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Health and Welfare Reporter
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Bio

Christina Jewett is an investigative reporter focusing on health and welfare for California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting. At ProPublica, she wrote about a chain of psychiatric hospitals plagued by substandard care and about the FDA’s failures to regulate medical-device safety. Her stories for ProPublica have appeared in the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. A native of Indiana, Christina previously worked at The Sacramento Bee. Jewett was a 2010 Livingston Award finalist. Her reporting on criminal justice has been honored with awards from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.

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My priorities

Health care costs and quality; state oversight of health and welfare systems; elder care; medical devices.

Recent Spotlight Articles

Video: Tapping into Medicare's gold mine?
Darlene Courtois describes herself as overweight, not emaciated, so she was surprised to learn that her hospital billed Medicare for treating her for kwashiorkor, a dangerous form of malnutrition.
Making money from Medicare
Hospitals have a lot of discretion when deciding what to include in their bills to Medicare, which in 2010 paid out more than $500 billion to health providers.
Heart failure cases surge among Prime hospital’s Medicare patients
For three years, a small hospital east of Los Angeles has billed Medicare for the costs of confronting what appears to be a cardiac crisis of unprecedented dimension. Chino Valley Medical Center claimed 35.2 percent of its Medicare patients were suffering from acute heart failure – six times the state average.
Ex-medical coding director questions Prime’s Medicare billing practices
Prime Healthcare has responded to questions about medical coding by saying it relies on doctors to properly diagnose patients and on hospital chief executives to oversee legal compliance. Prime also cautioned against “being duped by innuendo and misstatements” by disgruntled former workers.
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