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Sarah Salvadore is an independent data and investigative journalist.
Salvadore spent the past year collaborating on a multimedia investigation for The New Yorker. She worked as a fellow at Columbia’s Global Migration Project - writing and publishing stories of impact on women and girls, migrating from Central America's Northern Triangle. She is a 2016 alumna of Columbia Journalism School, New York, graduating with an MS in Data Specialization and Gender Migration.
Salvadore was part of Columbia's first cohort specializing in data-driven journalism. She is interested in telling human interest stories, using latest tools in data collection, analysis and visualization.
She previously worked with the Times of India in Hyderabad and Kolkata.
Why Your Health Insurer Doesn’t Care About Your Big Bills
While recovering from his hip surgery, Michael Frank studied the medical bill with disbelief. He thought it was a botched bill. Frank was shocked to see that his insurance, Aetna, had agreed to pay the hospital NYU Langone $70,000 for the surgery. It was more than three times the Medicare rate for the surgery, and more than double the estimate of what other insurance companies would pay for such a procedure.
In this investigative piece by ProPublica and NPR, journalist Marshall Allen looks at the role insurance companies play in boosting the tab at the hospital. Often considered the guardians of our dollars against high medical charges, health insurance companies are known to agree to pay high prices, then pass those charges to patients — all while raking in healthy profits.
