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Hoag Levins

Philadelphia
As seen in: upenn.edu, Tradeoffs, Tradeoffs (Podcast)
Covers:  The health services research, health economics, and health care delivery side of health care, i.e. those systems and professionals involved in the financing, management, and quality control.
Doesn't Cover: I don't cover the biomedical side of health care.

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Hoag Levins is the Editor of Digital Publications at the University of Pennsylvania's Leonard David Institute of Health Economics (LDI). Over the last four decades, he has been a reporter or editor at news publications including the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, Editor & Publisher Magazine, Advertising Age Magazine, APBnews.com, and Capitol News Connection. He is also a photographer (HoagOnSight.com), video producer and web developer.

Hoag Levins’s Journalist Portfolio

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Police Violence, Structural Racism and the Science of Reform

Police Violence, Structural Racism and the Science of Reform

Co-sponsored by LDI and the Penn Injury Science Center, a virtual seminar on Policing, Race and Health: Prosp…

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Lack of Broadband, Rise of Anti-Vaxxer Rhetoric Threaten Black Community During Pandemic

Lack of Broadband, Rise of Anti-Vaxxer Rhetoric Threaten Black Community During Pandemic

Camen Guerra Testifies Before Pa. Senate Committee Video of Camen Guerra Testifies Before Pa. Senate Committe…

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Modeling the Deaths vs. Jobs Tradeoffs of COVID Lockdown Policy Options

Modeling the Deaths vs. Jobs Tradeoffs of COVID Lockdown Policy Options

LDI Senior Fellow and Wharton School Professor Kent Smetters, PhD, demonstrated the Wharton School Budget Mod…

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The Intersecting Health Disasters of the Pandemic and Its Economic Meltdown

The Intersecting Health Disasters of the Pandemic and Its Economic Meltdown

Reviewing scientific evidence collected from the country's last century of economic downturns, LDI Senior Fel…

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LIGHTHOUSES: Canaries in the Coal Mine of Climate Change | HOAGonSight

LIGHTHOUSES: Canaries in the Coal Mine of Climate Change | HOAGonSight

Much like the canaries that once warned of dangers in coal mines, America's lighthouses are warning us about …

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Civil War at Philadelphia's Mütter: Shattered Bodies, Shallow Graves | HOAGonSight

Civil War at Philadelphia's Mütter: Shattered Bodies, Shallow Graves | HOAGonSight

The U.S. Civil War isn't something many people associate with Philadelphia's Mütter Museum - the famed 160 ye…

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Penn Research Posters at 2026 AcademyHealth Research Meeting

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By Hoag Levins
| upenn.edu
The poster exposition hall of the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) is always one of its most popular — and crowded — features. In this year’s expo, nearly a thousand poster topics spanned a broad cross-section of contemporary health services research, examining how health care systems are organized, financed, staffed, and regulated, and how those decisions affect patient outcomes, access to care, costs, workforce well-being, and health equity.
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Penn LDI at the 2026 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

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By Hoag Levins
| upenn.edu
AcademyHealth President Aaron Carroll welcomed attendees to the 2026 Research Meeting and highlighted the organization’s efforts to counter the federal cutbacks and policy changes.
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How the No Surprises Act Solved One Problem and Created Another

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By Hoag Levins
| Tradeoffs
In response to a crescendo of complaints nationwide about surprise medical bills from out-of-network doctors, Congress passed the No Surprises Act (NSA) in 2020 in a rare bipartisan effort.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Lots. Hermes 300 was the best. I gave up back in the 80s when I went digital.

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It's weakening the ability of mainstream journalism to deliver important, factual information to the whole population.

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That's no longer to easy to define when anyone with a computer and net connection has a digital printing press that reaches the world.

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