Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News

Jay Hancock joined Kaiser Health News in 2012 from The Baltimore Sun, where he wrote a column on business and finance. Previously he covered the State Department and the economics beat for The Sun and health care for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk and the Daily Press of Newport News. He has a bachelor's degree from Colgate University and a master's in journalism from Northwestern University.

Searching for healthcare's next big idea
By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News | 09:51 am | August 11, 2014
The ACA created the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to launch experiments in every state, changing the way doctors and hospitals are paid, building networks between caregivers and training them to intervene before chronic illness gets worse, but one of the biggest experiments is the center itself.
Earnings reports offer mixed messages
By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News | 10:16 am | August 04, 2014
Analysts who fear health spending is accelerating got plenty of evidence in Wall Street's second-quarter results to support their thesis. But so did folks who hope spending is still under control.
Employer health costs to rise in 2015
By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News | 08:21 am | June 25, 2014
Health costs will accelerate next year, but changes in how people buy care will help keep them from attaining the speed of several years ago, PricewaterhouseCoopers says in a new report.
Insurers eye supplemental health market
By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News | 11:03 am | February 06, 2014
As out-of-pocket medical costs grow for many Americans, the insurance industry is offering a way to help and, at the same time, expand its business: by selling supplemental policies that may fill the gaps for consumers.
Feds OK Maryland's 'bold' hospital plan
By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News | 10:22 am | January 10, 2014
Maryland officials have reached what analysts say is an unprecedented deal to limit medical spending and abandon decades of expensively paying hospitals for each extra procedure they perform. If the plan works, Maryland hospitals will be financially rewarded for keeping people out of the hospital.
President's win is reprieve for 'Obamacare'
By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News | 10:20 am | November 07, 2012
President Barack Obama's victory cements the Affordable Care Act, expanding coverage to millions but leaving weighty questions about how to pay for it and other care to be delivered to an increasingly unhealthy, aging population.