Ron Shinkman

Editor

Ron Shinkman is the founder and publisher of Payers & Providers, a weekly healthcare business publication that currently covers news in California but will expand nationally in the first quarter of 2011. He also serves as healthcare finance editor for the digital publisher FierceMarkets.com. Ron previously served as Los Angeles bureau chief for Modern Healthcare, a leading healthcare trade publication, and has written for or edited many other publications. He lives in Los Angeles.

Articles

Mining California Data for Amazing Healthcare Stories

<p><em>We have a guest post today from veteran healthcare journalist Ron Shinkman, editor of <a href="http://www.payersandproviders.com/">Payers and Providers</a> and healthcare finance editor for the digital publisher <a href="http://www.fiercemarkets.com/">FierceMarkets.com</a&gt;. Ron has mined publicly available California health data for amazing stories </em><em>—</em><em> including one on hospitals who paid their CEOS more than they spent on charity care. If you report on health in California, his tips are a must-read.