In Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous, a new system could screen hospital patients for financial aid, preventing hundreds of thousands from getting bills they can’t pay.
Noam N. Levey
Noam joined KFF Health News in 2021 after 17 years at the Los Angeles Times, the last 12 as the paper’s national health care reporter based in Washington, D.C. Noam has reported on health care issues from more than three dozen states and four continents and won numerous honors, including a 2023 Loeb Award and a NIHCM award for his “Diagnosis: Debt” investigation. He also won a NIHCM award for the 2019 series “Inside America’s High-Deductible Revolution.” Noam started his career at newspapers in Duluth, Minnesota; Montgomery, Alabama; and the United Arab Emirates. He was an investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News before joining the L.A. Times.