KFF Health News is frequently recognized by our peers in journalism for our reporting on the U.S. health system. Below are some of our award-winning stories.
2025
Columbia Journalism School
- Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award: Systemic Sickness
SABEW Best in Business Awards
- Government, Medium Division: How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic
- Personal Finance, Medium Division: Diagnosis: Debt Colorado
- Podcast/Audio, Medium Division
Center for Integrity in News Reporting
- Broadcast Reporting: Overpayment Outrage
Public Media Journalists Association Awards
- Continuing Coverage, Division D: The Injured
Society for Features Journalism Awards
- Feature Series or Project, Division 3: The Injured
Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards
- Series, Extra Large
Sacramento Press Club’s Golden State Journalism Awards
- Housing and Unhoused Reporting
Top of the Rockies Excellence in Journalism Contest
- Business Enterprise Reporting: Ex-Eye Bank Workers Say Pressure, Lax Oversight Led to Errors
- Feature, Long Form: Death and Redemption in an American Prison
- Health News: Where Are the Nation’s Primary Care Providers? It’s Not an Easy Answer
2024
Pulitzer Prizes
- Public Service, finalist: Overpayment Outrage (in partnership with Cox Media Group)
George Polk Awards
- Medical Reporting: When Medical Devices Malfunction (jointly produced with CBS News)
Shorenstein Center Goldsmith Awards
- Special Citation for Reporting on Government: Overpayment Outrage
Edward R. Murrow Awards
- Investigative Reporting: When Medical Devices Malfunction (jointly produced with CBS News))
- News Series: What it Means to Choose Pregnancy in Post-Roe America
- Podcast: Power to Police Perpetrators (in partnership with Just Human Productions)
Barlett & Steele Awards
- Gold Award in Regional/Local Category: Overpayment Outrage
National Press Foundation
- Feddie Award: Overpayment Outrage
National Headliner Awards
- Broadcast or Cable Television Stations – Public Service: Overpayment Outrage
AHCJ Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
- Health Policy, large: Overpayment Outrage
American Illustration
- American Illustration 43: How One Patient’s Textured Hair Nearly Kept Her From a Needed EEG
SABEW Best in Business Awards
- Government, Medium Division: Overpayment Outrage
California Newspaper Publishers Association’s California Journalism Awards
- Health Reporting
Colorado Press Association Awards
- Best Editorial Collaboration: Last Resort (jointly produced with Chalkbeat Colorado and The Colorado Sun)
DC Dateline
- Online Investigative Journalism. Robert D.G. Lewis Watchdog Award, and Television Investigative Journalism: Overpayment Outrage
Los Angeles Press Club
- Business Reporting: Giant Health System Almost Saved a Community Hospital. Now, It Wants to ‘Extract Every Dollar.’
Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards
- LGBTQ+ Equity Reporting, Extra Large Category Total: Tension Builds in Transgender Policy Debate in Montana
Sacramento Press Club’s Golden State Journalism Awards
- Public Health Reporting: Pregnant and Addicted: Homeless Women See Hope in Street Medicine
SoCal Journalism Awards
- Business Reporting: Giant Health System Almost Saved a Community Hospital. Now, It Wants to ‘Extract Every Dollar.’
2023
Gerald Loeb Awards
- Personal Finance and Consumer Reporting: Diagnosis Debt (jointly produced with NPR and CBS)
Edward R. Murrow Awards
- Podcast, Small Digital Organization: S4E5 “American Diagnosis: A Fuller Moon Rising”
National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Awards
- Radio-Network:Feature: Race Is Often Used as Medical Shorthand for How Bodies Work. Some Doctors Want to Change That.
- Digital Media – Online Project: Feature: The Last Responders: A Series on Those Who Help Communities Grieving Over Gun Violence
National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation Awards
- Digital Media: Diagnosis Debt (jointly produced with NPR and CBS)
2022
The Gerald Loeb Awards
- Audio: ‘We’re Coming for You’: For Public Health Officials, a Year of Threats and Menace (jointly produced with “This American Life”)
2021
National Press Club
- Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award: Lost on the Frontline (jointly produced with The Guardian)
Online Journalism Awards
- University of Florida Award in Investigative Data Journalism, Large Newsroom: Underfunded and Under Threat (jointly produced with The Associated Press)
Edward R. Murrow Awards
- Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Searching for Safety: Where Children Hide When Gunfire Is All Too Common
- Podcast, Region 5 Large Market Radio: Where It Hurts – Season 1: No Mercy (jointly produced with St. Louis Public Radio)
NABJ Salute to Excellence Awards
- Radio, Market 16 and Below, Feature: Searching for Safety: Where Children Hide When Gunfire Is All Too Common (jointly produced with St. Louis Public Radio and NPR)
NIHCM Foundation Awards
- Digital Media: Lost on the Frontline
National Headliner Awards
- Best Blog: Bill of the Month (jointly produced with NPR)
- Online pandemic coverage/project: KFF Health News with The Guardian and the AP
2020
Pulitzer Prizes
- Investigative Journalism, Finalist: UVA Lawsuits
Gerald Loeb Awards
- Explanatory: Death by 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong (jointly produced with Fortune)
- Commentary: America’s Broken Health Care System
National Press Club Awards
- Consumer Journalism: Hidden Harm
Edward R. Murrow Awards
- Investigative Reporting: Hidden Harm
NABJ Salute to Excellence Awards
- Radio, Market 16 and Below, feature: Hiding Places
2019
Barlett & Steele Awards
- Investigative Reporting: Hidden Harm
Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Awards
- Excellence in reporting about freedom of information, access to government-held information, or the First Amendment: Hidden Harm
National Press Foundation Awards
- The Feddie Reporting Award: Hidden Harm
National Headliner Awards
- Online Beat Coverage: Treatment Overkill
AHCJ Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
- Investigative, large division: Hidden Harm
