Sarah Kliff
{{Short description|American journalist and health policy reporter}}
Sarah Kliff is an American journalist and health policy reporter, recognized for her investigative work on the U.S. healthcare system. She is currently an investigative reporter at The New York Times, focusing on health policy and economics.{{Cite web |title=Sarah Kliff – The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/sarah-kliff |access-date=2025-04-12}}
Career
Kliff began her journalism career at Newsweek and later joined Politico, where she covered the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). She then moved to The Washington Post as a health policy reporter and was a founding writer of Wonkblog, a policy blog aimed at making complex policy topics accessible.{{Cite web |title=Sarah Kliff |url=https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/sarah-kliff |website=USC Center for Health Journalism |access-date=2025-04-12}}
In 2014, Kliff became a senior policy correspondent at Vox, where she launched the "Emergency Room Billing" project. This initiative involved collecting and analyzing over 1,000 emergency room bills submitted by readers to expose hidden and predatory billing practices in the U.S. healthcare system.{{Cite web |title=I read 1,182 emergency room bills this year. Here’s what I learned. |url=https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/12/18/18134825/emergency-room-bills-health-care-costs-america |website=Vox |date=2018-12-18 |access-date=2025-04-12}} The project led to significant policy changes and the reversal of over $100,000 in medical debt.{{Cite web |title=Sarah Kliff brings transparency to ER prices, one hospital bill at a time |url=https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/sarah-kliff-vox.php |website=Columbia Journalism Review |date=2018-10-23 |access-date=2025-04-12}}
In 2019, Kliff joined The New York Times to continue her investigative reporting on healthcare costs, surprise medical billing, and federal health policy, including the COVID-19 pandemic response.
Recognition
Kliff's work has received widespread acclaim. She was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for her work on emergency room billing practices.{{Cite web |title=Award Finalists |url=https://nihcm.org/awards/digital-media-award/finalists |website=NIHCM Foundation |access-date=2025-04-12}} She has also received awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists and the National Institute for Health Care Management.{{Cite web |title=Sarah Kliff |url=https://www.aaespeakers.com/keynote-speakers/sarah-kliff |website=AAE Speakers Bureau |access-date=2025-04-12}}
Education
Kliff earned her bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis.{{Cite web |title=Sarah Kliff |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-kliff-2464a65b |website=LinkedIn |access-date=2025-04-12}}
Personal life
She resides in Washington, D.C., with her husband and their beagle named Spencer.{{Cite web |title=Sarah Kliff |url=https://www.vox.com/authors/sarah-kliff |website=Vox |access-date=2025-04-12}}
References
External links
- [https://www.nytimes.com/by/sarah-kliff Official New York Times author page]
- {{twitter|sarahkliff}}
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Category:American women journalists
Category:American health and wellness writers
Category:American investigative journalists
Category:The New York Times journalists