The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "medicare" ...
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Cracking Codes
Learn about datasets that can help localize health stories, including pharmaceutical company spending on doctors, nursing home violations and hospital quality, among others. We will dive into Medicare data and data that local and state reporters can use.
Tags: health data; Medicaid; nursing homes; drugs
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Making Health Data Sexy
Learn about datasets that can help localize health stories, including pharmaceutical company spending on doctors, nursing home violations and hospital quality, among others. We will dive into Medicare data and data that local and state reporters can use.
Tags: Medicare data; nursing home; hospital; pharmaceuticals
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Strategies for the Continuing Investigation
Regan lays out the top ten databases for your toolkit. He links to many helpful government websites so that you get the most out of your investigation.
Tags: health and safety; medicare; FAA; EPA; DOT
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Tips for Following Health Reform Where You Live
Fairhall provides information on tracking and reporting on changes in the insurance marketplace in the face of health care reform. Included is a list of helpful websites covering health reform and insurance issues.
Tags: insurance; health care; health reform; hospitals; insurers; medicare
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Resources for health topics
Richards highlights data on health topics including mortality, prescription drugs and hospital performance.
Tags: Centers for Disease Control; mortality; National Bureau of Economic Research; National Center for Health Statistics (CDC); international classification of diseases; coroner; medical examiner; autopsy report; Drug Enforcement Agency; controlled substance task force; ARCOS; Automation of reports and Consolidated Orders System; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services; HCUPnet
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Assisted Living Tipsheet
The author discusses how to investigate long term care for the elderly. He explains the difference between nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The tipsheet also suggests documents and sources that will be useful for investigating either type of facility.
Tags: elder care; nusing homes; assisted living; Medicare; Medicaid; 911 calls; inspection reports
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CAR Investigations into Health Care
This tipsheet lists eight websites that are useful for investigating health care. The list includes www.healthlaw.org and the website for the Federation of State Medical Boards. For each website, Schulte offers a brief description of what information can be found there.
Tags: health care; internet; invisible web; Medicare; Medicaid; doctors; health care workers; hospitals; patients; malpractice
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Internet Sites for Health Care Investigations
Schulte gives a list of internet sites that have information on complex health care and abuse issues. Often these sites will have links to other helpful sources.
Tags: CAR; health care fraud; doctors; health care scams; Medicaid; Medicare; Health and Human Services; HHS
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Spotting Medical Fraud in Your Community
This tipsheet is about reporting on medical fraud. Most of the tipsheet is a list of tell-tale signs, to help reporters notice the fraud. McCormick suggests places to look and people to contact about the presence of fraud in your community.
Tags: medicine; doctors; scams; Medicare; Medicaid; hospitals; clinics; poverty
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Sex offenders in long-term care facilities
This tipsheet explains how the Tulsa World matched a nursing home database with one of sex offenders and found that 18 registered sex offenders were living in nursing homes. Branstetter offers advice for the actual data analysis, such as how to clean and standardize the data, as well as advice about the shoe-leather reporting aspect of the story. Finally, Branstetter suggests some online resources that are helpful for covering this topic.
Tags: sex offenders; matching; joining databases; Medicare; retirement; assisted-living