I'm a freelance health care journalist whose work focuses on helping consumers understand how to navigate the health care system, pay for health care, and make sense of health reform's impact. I also write regularly for professional audiences, covering the business and economics of healthcare.

I am WebMD’s expert Health Insurance Navigator blogger, a correspondent for California Healthline and iHealthBeat, both news services of the California Healthcare Foundation, and a former consumer health care columnist for the Los Angeles Times. 

My work has also appeared on Reuters, Kaiser Health News, Health.com, in USAToday, the Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun, among others.

Before becoming a freelance journalist, I worked in the health care industry for more than 10 years in New York City. I spent the earlier part of my career working as a clinician in hospitals and outpatient clinics. I soon went on to work with one of the largest managed care organizations in the country where I developed benefit plans for Fortune 100 and 500 companies, as well as state governments. For a number of years I oversaw all provider network operations within the company’s largest market, collaborating with health insurers and government regulators to meet market demands.  I went on to work for a health care technology company formed specifically to address common medical mishaps occurring from a lack of coordinated care.  

I left the East Coast a few years ago to return home to sunny Southern California, where I live with my husband and son.

Articles

Consumer Questions about health reform

Answering consumers' questions about health reform

Consumers are not so much interested in the political implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act, as they are in knowing how it affects them directly and what insurance will cost.