Rachana Pradhan

Rachana Pradhan

Rachana Pradhan, correspondent, reports on an array of national health policy issues and their effects on everyday Americans. She came to KFF Health News from Politico, where for five years she covered health care policy and politics. Rachana reported on former HHS Secretary Tom Price’s extensive use of private jets at taxpayers’ expense. The investigation, which resulted in Price’s resignation, was a 2018 finalist for the American Society of News Editors’ O’Brien Fellowship Award and earned an honorable mention for the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Edgar A. Poe award. Rachana also covered the implementation of the Affordable Care Act for Inside Health Policy, a health care trade publication. She graduated from James Madison University.
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US Cancer statistics, constrained by Trump policies, recognize only ‘male’ or ‘female’ patients

US cancer registries collecting cancer statistics are now constrained by Trump’s gender policy.

Patient Numbers at NIH Hospital Plummeted Under Trump

NIH hospital, a renowned research hospital that cares for patients with rare or life-threatening diseases — has tumbled under the…

Listen: Scientists Speak Out on Cuts to National Cancer Institute, Others Flee

Scientists at the National Cancer Institute are speaking out about deep funding and staff cuts at the Institute as others…

‘We dissent’: NIH workers protest Trump policies that ‘harm the health of Americans’

NIH workers openly protested policies of the Trump administration that they feel will harm the health of Americans.