Peter Johnson

Based in San Luis Obispo, California, Peter is the assistant editor at SLO County’s alternative weekly newspaper, New Times. In his four years at the paper as a reporter and editor, he’s covered local government, education, cops and courts, agriculture, the environment, and more. He’s a 2015 graduate of Stanford University, with a BA in Communication. His 2019 Data Fellowship project will examine how hospital consolidation has impacted the price and availability of health care on the Central Coast.

Articles

Hospital consolidation is leading to soaring costs. Here’s how to localize the story.

Consolidation is changing heatlh care — and how much it costs — in almost every corner of the country.

Poverty and Class

Health Insurance and Costs

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Patient Safety and Ethics

Health Equity & Social Justice

Healthcare Systems & Policy

As commercially insured patients pay more to hospitals and clinics, lawmakers fail to pass a local senator's bill expanding oversight of the health care industry (Part 2)

Annual hospital financial reports highlight one big-picture health care trend across California: Hospitals are making increasingly higher profits on commercially insured patients, while they’re suffering steeper losses on Medicare patients.

Poverty and Class

Health Insurance and Costs

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Children & Families

Healthcare Systems & Policy

Big health: A look at how the Central Coast's two hospital systems shape local health care costs

"We live in a health care desert. There's no other way to say it," on Central Coast resident said. "We are basically beholden to two major health care companies."

Health Insurance and Costs

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Is hospital consolidation making health care less affordable on California’s Central Coast?

Research shows that as hospitals fall under fewer ownership umbrellas, prices can rise — and at significantly higher rates than their more modestly sized competitors.

Health Insurance and Costs

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

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Peter Johnson

Articles

Hospital consolidation is leading to soaring costs. Here’s how to localize the story.

As commercially insured patients pay more to hospitals and clinics, lawmakers fail to pass a local senator's bill expanding oversight of the health care industry (Part 2)

Big health: A look at how the Central Coast's two hospital systems shape local health care costs

Is hospital consolidation making health care less affordable on California’s Central Coast?