KFF Health News has been recognized repeatedly by our peers in journalism with an increasing number of awards honoring our reports on the American health care system.
2024
Pulitzer Prizes
- Public Service, Finalist: David Hilzenrath of KFF Health News and Jodie Fleischer of Cox Media Group for “Overpayment Outrage” series
AHCJ Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
- Health Policy, large division: David Hilzenrath of KFF Health News and Jodie Fleischer of Cox Media Group for “Overpayment Outrage” series
The Sacramento Press Club Awards
- Public Health Reporting: Angela Hart, Beat Reporting on Homelessness
The Shorenstein Center Goldsmith Awards
- Special Citation for Reporting on Government: Overpayment Outrage (in partnership with Cox Media Group)
The Edward R. Murrow Awards
- Podcast: Power to Police Perpetrators (in partnership with Just Human Productions)
George Polk Awards
- Medical Reporting: When Medical Devices Malfunction (jointly produced with CBS News)
2023
The Gerald Loeb Awards
- Personal Finance and Consumer Reporting:Diagnosis Debt (jointly produced with NPR and CBS)
NABJ 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
NIHCM Foundation Awards
- Digital Media: Diagnosis Debt (jointly produced with NPR and CBS)
Top of the Rockies
- Enterprise Reporting: Chasing Progress
American Association for Cancer Research
- June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism: No Mercy
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)
The Radio Television Digital News Association
- National Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Searching For Safety: Where Children Hide When Gunfire Is All Too Common
- Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Podcast, Region 5 Large Market Radio: Where It Hurts – Season 1: No Mercy (jointly produced with St. Louis Public Radio)
National Association of Black Journalists’ 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)
News Leaders Association Awards
- Batten Medal for Coverage of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Lost on the Frontline (jointly produced with The Guardian)
World Association of News Publishers North American Digital Media Awards
- Best Journalism Project: Lost On The Frontline (jointly produced with The Guardian)
NIHCM Foundation Awards
- Digital Media: Lost on the Frontline (jointly produced with The Guardian)
AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards
- Science Reporting Gold Award: Hollowed-Out Public Health System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus (part of the Underfunded and Under Threat project jointly produced with The Associated Press)
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
SABEW Best in Business Awards
- Data Journalism, medium division: Millions of Older Americans Live in Counties With No ICU Beds
California News Publisher Association’s Journalism Awards
- Coverage of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Holding California Accountable for its Covid Response
Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards
- Writing: Environment and Natural Disaster Reporting, Large Division: Wildfires’ Toxic Air Leaves Damage Long After the Smoke Clears
- Audio: Health and Science Reporting for COVID, Large Division: COVID Stalks Montana Town Already Saddled With Asbestos Disease
Top of the Rockies Awards
- News Reporting, Single Story: Need a COVID-19 Nurse? That’ll Be $8,000 a Week
- Politics Feature: Not Pandemic-Proof: Insulin Copay Caps Fall Short, Fueling Underground Exchanges
- Beat Reporting, pandemic reporting package by Markian Hawryluk
- Business Feature: American Pot Is The Gold Standard. But Canada Leads The Export Game — For Now
- Health Feature: Push Is On in US to Figure Out South Asians’ High Heart Risks
- Health News: A Colorado Ski Community Planned To Test Everyone For COVID-19
- Mental Health: Namaste Noir: Yoga Co-Op Seeks to Diversify Yoga to Heal Racialized Trauma
- Religion News: Where Mask-Wearing Isn’t Gospel: Colorado Churches Grapple With Reopening
2020
Pulitzer Prizes
- Investigative Journalism, Finalist: “UVA Lawsuits” series
The 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” columns
The Goldsmith Awards
- Investigative Reporting, Finalist: “Hidden Harm” series
National Press Club Awards
- Consumer Journalism: “Hidden Harm” series
Edward R. Murrow Awards
- Investigative Reporting: “Hidden Harm” series
SABEW Best in Business Awards
- Government, medium division: “Hidden Harm” series
- Health/Science, medium division: “UVA Lawsuits” series
- International reporting, medium and small divisions: In India’s Burgeoning Pain Market, U.S. Drugmakers Stand to Gain
- Investigative, medium division: “Hidden Harm” series
- Commentary/Opinion, medium division: “America’s Broken Health Care System” columns
National Headliner Awards
- Online Beat Coverage: “No Mercy” series
Sigma Delta Chi Public Service Awards
- Public Service in Online Journalism: “UVA Lawsuits” series
Society for Professional Journalists Awards
- Sunshine Award: “Hidden Harm” series
Editor & Publisher Eppy Awards
- Best Community Service on a Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors: “UVA Lawsuits” series
Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards
- Public Service: Death by 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong (jointly produced with Fortune)
2019
Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism
- Barlett & Steele Award for Investigative Reporting: “Hidden Harm” series
SABEW Best in Business Awards
- Health/Science, small division: Drug price shenanigans
The 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” series
National Press Foundation Awards
- The Feddie Reporting Award: “Hidden Harm” series
National Headliner Awards
- Online Beat Coverage: “Treatment Overkill” series
AHCJ Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
- Investigative, large division: “Hidden Harm” series
2018
AHCJ Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
Business: “Rogue Vaccine“ series
NCDJ Katherine Schneider Medal
- Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability: Nowhere to Go: Young People With Severe Autism Languish in Hospitals
NIHCM Annual Research and Journalism Award
- Digital Media Award: “The Orphan Drug Machine” series
National Press Club Journalism Awards
- Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award: “The Orphan Drug Machine” series
National Headliner Award
First Place for the Treatment Overkill series
2017
AHCJ Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
- Business: “Liquid Gold” series
National Association of Black Journalists
- Newspaper, speciality, over 150,000: Medicaid Is Balm And Benefit For Victims Of Gun Violence
2016
- Victor Cohn Award to Liz Szabo
